Public–Private Partnerships in Greece, an Economy under Debt Crisis

Over the last years, a paradigm shift has taken place in which private organ-isations are involved to the creation and operation of partnerships aiming at delivering efficient and effective public services (Osborne 2000). Public– private partnerships (PPPs; Akintoye et al. 2003; Bovaird 2004; Jones and Noble 2008; Osborne 2000; Papadopoulos 2012; Rangel and Gelande 2010; Selsky and Parker 2005; Yolles and Iles 2006) have been adopted in a turn to privatisation so as to alleviate problems caused by state-owned infrastructures (Burton 1990) and public reform (Broadbent and Laughlin 2003; Shaoul 2003).