Municipally owned corporations (MOCs) are increasingly utilised to provide local public
services, but little remains known about their efficiency and effectiveness. In this article, we …

This article presents the results of a systematic review of international studies on economic
and quality effects of contracting out published in the period from 2000 to 2014. We …

I nstitutional collective action (ICA) dilemmas arise from the division or partitioning of
authority in which decisions by one government in one or more specific functional area …

Austerity and fiscal crisis make the search for cost‐saving reforms in local government more
critical. While cost savings from privatization have frequently proven ephemeral, inter …

Focusing on the collaboration intersecting public, non‐profit and private spheres of
economic activity, we analyse the conceptual forms of hybridity embedded in these novel …

Social impact bonds (SIBs) attract private investment to social programs by paying a market
rate of return if predefined outcome targets are met. SIBs monetize benefits of social …

Abstract Did New Public Management (NPM) actually lead to a smaller public sector? NPM
has been the subject of extensive academic debate as to its successes and failures …

This study seeks to investigate the effect of compassion in the public service workplace. Our
compassion model is based on public service sector employees who receive …

Capturing the benefits of competition is a key argument for outsourcing public services, yet
public service markets often lack sufficient competition. The authors use survey and …

Inter-municipal cooperation is an important public service delivery reform, whose drivers
move beyond simple concerns with costs and economic efficiency, to policy issues related to …