Mhamed Biygautane

TL;DR: Both the public and private sectors have long histories, and governments have been mixing efforts with private businesses for thousands of years as mentioned in this paper. So, despite our modern enthusiasm for private finan...

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the activities and strategies of several social actors deployed to initiate and implement an airport public-private partnership (PPP) project in Saudi Arabia, by connecting insights from the PPP and institutional entrepreneurship literatures.

TL;DR: The authors argued that market-based reforms offer limited options for the three Gulf states in the absence of strong political will to make fundamental reforms that could alter the state-society relations, and further theorization of administrative change is required in cultural contexts, such as the Gulf region, where administration and society are intertwined, and where trying to minimize the role and size of the state, poses a direct threat to the political legitimacy of the ruling elites.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the prospect of using infrastructure public-private partnerships (PPPs) within Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar in light of the drastic drop in oil prices since mid-2014.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the experiences of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar with infrastructure public-private partnerships (PPPs), and offer new insights into the development of the PPP phenomenon outside of the Western context.