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Chinese Journal of Management Science ›› 2023, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (9): 233-243.doi: 10.16381/j.cnki.issn1003-207x.2021.0707

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Government Member's Self-face Concern and Escalation of Commitment in PPP Project: Regulation of Academic Degree

Jia-qi LIU1, Ji-cai LIU2()   

  1. 1.School of Economics and Management,Southwest University of Science and Technology,Mianyang 621002,China
    2.School of Economics and Management,Southwest Jiaotong University,Chengdu 610031,China
  • Received:2021-04-10 Revised:2021-07-22 Online:2023-09-15 Published:2023-09-19
  • Contact: Ji-cai LIU E-mail:jicailiu@126.com

Abstract:

As a label of personal ability, academic degree is the influencing factors of social status. In PPP (Public-Private Partnership) project, in order to maintain the status and image, the government member’s decision-making behavior is often affected by self-face concerns. Highly educated government officials will be more inclined to self-face concerns, and aggravate the risk of escalation of commitment. As the initiator of PPP project, government member's escalation of commitment has a serious influence on project performance. Accordingly, based on the perspective of the current situation of the average education improvement and the strategy of government PPP talent reserve, the differences of the influence of self-face concerns of government members on escalation of commitment under the different academic degree in PPP projects are mainly discussed. In the study, a situational questionnaire survey is conducted with government departments of different educational levels as subjects, and 155 valid are were collected. Through data processing and multi-group analysis (measurement model, average structure, path structure) with SPSS and AMOS, it is found that: The tendency of government's self-face concern increases with the rise of education level; Compared with master's degree and bachelor's degree, the self-face concern of the government with doctoral degree have a more significant impact on the escalation of commitment; In PPP projects, the government's escalation of commitment also has a upward trend with the increase of education level. The results provide theoretical support and practical guidance for the government's human resource structure and the management of decision-maker’s escalation of commitment in PPP project.

Key words: academic degree, government members, self-face concern, escalation of commitment, PPP project

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