Contracting out services in the public sector should convey efficiency gains compared to the
in-house delivery of these services because of the competition element. However, results …

Contracting out is the prevalent types of alternative service-delivery ar-rangements in public
sector. The literature suggests that if the contracting is properly implemented, then it will …

The research tries to explain the contrasting pictures presented by two recent articles
published in Public Management Review: Tonnisson and Wilson and Nemec, Merickova …

Abstract The European Union emphasises the need to sever the link between economic
growth, resource consumption and waste production and has set targets to achieve the most …

In many cases the introduction of performance evaluation, performance management and
performance financing schemes do not produce the expected results and even create …

Abstract 1 Matej Bel University, Faculty of Economics, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. 2 Masaryk
University, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Brno, Czech Republic. 3 AMBIS …

The article deals with the econometric analysis on the influence of selected characteristics of
public contracts with respect to the decision making of bidders on public contracts regarding …

This chapter discusses the issue of efficiency of the different modes of the provision of local
public services in two selected new EU member states–the Czech Republic and Slovakia …

This article deals with the methods of services provision in Slovak towns. It addresses
decision-making concerning selected services provision, based on a transaction cost …

The purpose of this article is to explore the effectiveness of contracting/outsourcing as an
alternative way of improving the quality of public service delivery in the Czech Republic and …