Governing Major Infrastructure Projects in Laos: the Context of Front-End

For pursuing development goal, the governance of major infrastructure projects in Laos should be investigated from the front-end phase, it’s the first step to examine essential requirements and highlight both positive and negatively affect to the whole project. This research this research had explored the decision-making process, governance framework, assessment method, roles and responsibility of public infrastructure projects as the front-end governance context in Laos. Data from public documents and literature can be drawn a whole picture of front-end governance context, and case studies can provide us with a better understanding of real context (phenomenon). The synthesizing analysis can be explored the parties, roles and the staged-gated process of front-end decision for a better understanding of decision-making in major infrastructure projects.

1. Nikhaphone MACKHAPHONH: School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
2. Guangshe JIA: School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
3. Qiang MOU: School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
4. Puwei ZHANG: School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Nikhaphone MACKHAPHONH, Guangshe JIA, Qiang MOU, Puwei ZHANG "Governing Major Infrastructure Projects in Laos: the Context of Front-End" International Journal of Business, Economics and Management Works, Vol. 6, Issue 03, PP. 31-37, March 2019.

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