A Study on Critical Factors Affecting Public Infrastructures Project Performance in Ethiopia

摘要

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.