Damoah, I, Akwei, CA, Amoako, IO and Botchie, D (2018) Corruption as a source of government project failure in developing countries: Evidence from Ghana. Project Management Journal, 49 (3). pp. 17-33. ISSN 1938-9507

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Abstract

This study explores how corruption impacts the failure of government projects in developing countries with evidence from the Ghanaian context. This study solicits the perceptions of project management practitioners (14), contractors (6), government officials (clients) (5) and the general public (5) on the subject. The findings indicate that corruption, influence government project failure on all the failure criteria used as the evaluating tool. However, corruption influences failure at two different levels: project management and product phase. At the management level, corruption has direct influence whilst at the product phase level, the influence is indirect.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	1202 Building, 1503 Business And Management, 0806 Information Systems
Subjects:	J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General)
Divisions:	Liverpool Business School
Publisher:	Sage
Date Deposited:	12 Jan 2018 12:17
Last Modified:	04 Sep 2021 10:51
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/7806

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