A Study on Critical Factors Affecting Public Infrastructures Project Performance in Ethiopia
- DOI
- 10.2991/aemh-19.2019.41How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Ethiopia, The construction industry, Public infrastructures, Project performance, Factor analysis
- Abstract
It has been demonstrated that the construction industry can be characterized by inefficient and ineffective service delivery. The main goal of this paper is to examine the critical causal factors affecting public infrastructures projects performance in Ethiopia in order to improve the industry’s service delivery. Based on the 58 factors compiled through the analysis of existing theories and investigations, we prepared and distributed 700 structured survey questionnaires for professionals in the construction industry of Ethiopia; and received 578 (82.57 %) of them. The results from an extended statistical analysis on the collected data revealed that the top 8 critical specific factors affecting government-financed infrastructures projects performance in the Ethiopia comprehends: poor project planning & administration system, weak project management leadership skills & institutional capacity, inadequate project design, escalation of construction materials price, lack of integrated project planning system among parties, inadequate capacity of the contractor, poor project schedule and cost management system. The study has an implication for construction industry practitioners, government officials, and research fellows.
- Copyright
- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Amenu Benti Gadisa AU - Hong Zhou PY - 2019/10 DA - 2019/10 TI - A Study on Critical Factors Affecting Public Infrastructures Project Performance in Ethiopia BT - Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Advanced Education, Management and Humanities (AEMH 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 212 EP - 218 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/aemh-19.2019.41 DO - 10.2991/aemh-19.2019.41 ID - Gadisa2019/10 ER -