Klaipėdos universitetas

This article examines how Lean principles can be integrated into public-private partnership (PPP) projects to promote effective reconstruction and sustainable infrastructure development in postwar Ukraine. Driven by the urgent need to rebuild, Ukraine faces the challenge of not only rehabilitating its infrastructure assets, but also ensuring compliance with European Union standards and global sustainable development goals. The study explores the theoretical underpinnings of Lean manufacturing and its applicability to infrastructure PPP projects. A mixed method approach, including document and literature review, case studies, expert opinion and SWOT analysis, was used to identify opportunities for improving project implementation and resource allocation. The results show that the Lean concept can save costs, promote multi-stakeholder collaboration, and optimise procedures at each stage of the PPP infrastructure project lifecycle. Overcoming regulatory hurdles, attracting private investment and reducing political and economic uncertainty, are necessary ingredients for the successful implementation of Lean-based infrastructure PPP projects.

The analysis of literature on liberalisation of the services reveals that public goods, public institutions, privatisation and liberalisation have become the main subject of studies and different debates of the economists, politicians, as well as theoreticians and practicians of public administration during the last century. In the course of the period, there have been changes both in theoretical ideas and practical solutions while providing public services. During the last thirty years, theory of the public goods has involved topics of the analysis on the liberalisation and privatisation processes. Most of the studies related to the liberalisation of the services have been concentrated to financial aspects (expenses and income), while social benefits of the liberalisation, such as public interest, equality, versatility and accessibility of services, transparency, social cohesion and justice, have been left in the background.