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    Tactical Conflict Prevention Strategies in Public-Private Partnerships: Lessons from Experts
    (American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2024-02-01) Liyanapathirana, D; Adeniyi, O; Rathnasiri, P
    Conflicts are frequent in public–private partnerships (PPP) due to the involvement of multidisciplined parties within the process.Individual parties among the numerous stakeholders often work toward achieving their own desired goals. Early identification andelimination of potential conflicts are significant to achieving a smooth delivery process of PPP projects. PPP offers imperative benefitsfor economic development, especially in developing countries. However, despite the huge potentials of PPP in infrastructure develop-ment, limited attention still exists in the early stage on the prevention of conflict. Aside from that, a more focused investigation is requiredacross different locations. Therefore, this study aims to enhance the understanding of conflict occurrenceand articulate steps to conflictprevention in PPPs through preconstruction stage practices. Expert interviews were carried out in two phases. Phase I identified thecurrent process and triggers of conflicts and Phase 2 identified thestrategies, and recommendationsto eliminate the conflicts. Thepurposive sampling method was used for the selection of experts in Sri Lanka and findings were analyzed using the content analysismethod. This study identified and categorized the triggers of conflicts in PPP as political interference and public interruption, lack ofknowledge about PPP, contractual agreement,and commitment of professionals. Further, the strategies to prevent conflicts werediscussed under key headings such as proper professional practice, use of lessons learned, thorough contract drafting, a well-defined program,precontract practices, project-long audits, awareness programs, and government support.DOI:10.1061/JLADAH.LADR-996.© 2023American Society of Civil Engineers
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    Conflicts Handling Styles Used by Professionals at Pre-Contract Stage of Building Construction Projects in Sri Lanka
    (SLIIT, 2022-02-11) De Silva, p; Sandanayake, Y. G
    Conflicts between design team professionals is a common experience in building construction projects in Sri Lanka. Depending on the way they are been handled, these conflicts bring either positive or negative impacts to the project. Thus, this paper investigates the conflict-handling styles that the professionals use to handle different types of conflicts among themselves at pre-contract stage of construction projects in Sri Lanka. The study on different types of conflicts and handling styles were derived through quantitative approach by a questionnaire survey designed incorporating Rahim’s Organisational Conflict InventoryII (ROCI-II) with the participation of 42 number of professionals engaged during the pre-contract stage of building construction projects in Sri Lanka. The scope of the study was limited to the building construction projects and only to the conflicts among professionals at the same level. The collected data were analysed using descriptive statistics. The research findings revealed that there are four types of conflicts: task, relationship, process and status conflicts, occur in different frequencies among the professionals. The task conflicts occur very often, and process conflicts occur often whilst relationship and status conflicts occur rarely among professionals during the pre-contract stage. This study revealed that professionals use different conflict handling styles to handle these four types of conflicts among themselves during the pre-contract stage of building construction projects in Sri Lanka. Further, majority of professionals use integrating style often to handle conflicts among themselves, and they use avoiding style very rarely to handle the conflicts among themselves except for relationship conflicts. However, to handle relationship conflicts, professionals use dominating style as the last option. The study would assist the industry practitioners to identify their personnel conflict handling style and the outcome of using each style with their supervisors when handling conflicts during the precontract stage.