Partenariats public-privé et management de la complexité : Les nouveaux défis de l'état

Abstract

PPPs tend to be seen as an ideal form of organisation, enabling the state to achieve economic and social objectives without releasing funds or having to manage the resulting services. This is a utopian view. It is in fact the case that PPPs are increasing the complexity of the state, as happened with state-owned enterprises. In this article, state management is compared to that of a diversified company and demonstrate that although PPPs are remarkable organisational innovations, they must be properly managed if they are to live up to their promise. They are managed in a similar way to state-owned enterprises and this can lead to the same problems. With regard to the developments proposed, this article also suggests how PPP management can be organised on a practical level.