The multiple principal problem refers to multiple collective action problems that
organizations face when they must balance (competing) interests of multiple stakeholders …

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 …

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 …

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 …

With the increase in public services offered at the local level and heightened budgetary and
financial constraints on local government, new ways of managing local public services must …

Inter-municipal cooperation in public service delivery has attracted the interest of local
authorities seeking to reform public service provision. Cost saving, together with better …

Since the 1980′ s, some Mexican municipalities have subcontracted waste collection
services to private companies, with an eye on increasing the efficiency of this service …

Considerable research has been devoted to the analysis of efficiency and of management
forms for municipal waste collection, but widely varying results have been reported. In this …

Abstract Using a large 2012–2015 cross-sectional dataset for all 279 municipalities in
Tuscany, Italy (the location of the first municipality in Europe to adopt a zero-waste strategy …