Collaboration and opportunism in megaproject alliance contracts: The interplay between governance, trust and culture

Alliance contracts have been introduced in megaprojects to improve the alignment of objectives, risk and reward between client contractor. However, relational norms alliances are not sufficient on their own eliminate opportunistic behaviors. This study shows that, investing mechanisms supportive governance, culture, trust provides a platform upon which firms may foster collaboration limit self-interest oriented behavior amongst alliance partners. Our qualitative case major project-based organization reveals impact these mechanisms, more pointedly, how they interact often reinforce each other. Governance, culture interlinked complementary, managers need reflect holistically interactions order establish collaborative, rather than