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ToolsDamoah, I. S., Akwei, C. A., Amoako, I.O. and Botchie, D., 2018. Corruption as a source of government project failure in developing countries: Evidence from Ghana. Project Management Journal, 49 (3), 17-33.
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Abstract
This study explores how corruption impacts on 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 projects 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 |
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| ISSN: | 8756-9728 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | corruption in projects; developing countries; failure criteria; government project failure |
| Group: | Bournemouth University Business School |
| ID Code: | 31019 |
| Deposited By: | Symplectic RT2 |
| Deposited On: | 20 Jul 2018 14:05 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Mar 2022 14:12 |
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