Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2017 Dec 4;12(12):e0188905. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0188905. eCollection 2017.
This paper contributes to the pursuit of socially sustainable water and sanitation infrastructure for all people by discovering statistically robust relationships between Hofstede's dimensions of cross-cultural comparison and the choice of contract award types, project type, and primary revenue sources. This analysis, which represents 973 projects distributed across 24 low- and middle-income nations, uses a World Bank dataset describing high capital cost water and sewerage projects funded through private investment. The results show that cultural dimensions explain variation in the choice of contract award types, project type, and primary revenue sources. These results provide empirical evidence that strategies for water and sewerage project organization are not culturally neutral. The data show, for example, that highly individualistic contexts are more likely to select competitive contract award types and to depend on user fees to provide the primary project revenue stream post-construction. By selecting more locally appropriate ways to organize projects, project stakeholders will be better able to pursue the construction of socially sustainable water and sewerage infrastructure.
本文通过发现霍夫斯泰德跨文化比较维度与合同授予类型选择、项目类型和主要收入来源之间的统计上显著关系，为所有人提供社会可持续的水和卫生基础设施做出了贡献。该分析代表了分布在 24 个低收入和中等收入国家的 973 个项目，使用世界银行数据集描述了通过私人投资资助的高资本成本水和污水项目。结果表明，文化维度解释了合同授予类型选择、项目类型和主要收入来源的变化。这些结果提供了经验证据，表明水和污水项目组织的策略不是文化中立的。例如，数据表明，高度个人主义的环境更有可能选择竞争性合同授予类型，并依赖用户收费来提供项目建设后的主要项目收入流。通过选择更符合当地情况的项目组织方式，项目利益相关者将能够更好地追求建设社会可持续的水和污水基础设施。
