Corruption as a Source of Government Project Failure in Developing Countries

Evidence from Ghana

Article Risk Management, Ethics 1 June 2018

Project Management Journal

Damoah, Isaac Sakyi | Akwei, Cynthia A. | Amoako, Isaac Oduro | Botchie, David

How to cite this article:

Damoah, I. S., Akwei, C. A., Amoako, I. O., & Botchie, D. (2018). Corruption as a Source of Government Project Failure in Developing Countries: Evidence from Ghana. Project Management Journal, 49(3), 17–33. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/8756972818770587
This study explores how corruption impacts the failure of government projects in developing countries with evidence from the Ghanaian context. This study solicits the perceptions of project management practitioners (14), contractors (6), government officials (clients; 5), and the general public (5) on the subject. The findings indicate that corruption influences government project failure on all the failure criteria that were used for the evaluation. However, corruption influences failure at two different levels: project management and product phase. At the project management level, corruption has direct influence, while at the product phase level, the influence is indirect.
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