Public-Private Partnerships and Infrastructural Supply Chain Sustainability

Abstract

The managerial issue of sustainability is critical for most business functions and is consequently widely dealt with in Supply Chain Management (SCM) literature.

Overarching infrastructural Supply Chains (SCs), typically considered “public goods”, represent a vital backbone for underlying private SCs within Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) agreements.

Within this framework, the purpose of this paper is to examine how infrastructural SCs may synergistically interact with their underlying chains, promoting overall sustainability.

Innovative analysis of PPP and SC literature, combined with empirical evidence from public healthcare infrastructural investments, shows that social, economic, and environmental sustainability is still an uphill target that requires public subsidies. Public contribution may however be partially funded by the creation of taxable added value, stimulating sustainable growth patterns.

Keywords: integrated value chains, sustainable procurement, value for money, healthcare, stakeholders