As outsourcing ventures become more complex, opportunities for synergies and efficiencies
increase, but also create longer and more fragmented supply chains which could have …

The importance of public financial management for the health and wellbeing of citizens
became dramatically apparent as governments sought to respond to the coronavirus …

The impact of NPM within the social services has come to be manifested chiefly through
ideas about marketization, or the creation of market-like arrangements within their provision …

Citizen Participation in the Age of Contracting is based on a simple premise: in democracies,
power originates with citizens. While citizen participation in government remains a central …

While the motives behind municipalities' choices of service delivery modes may lie in the
past, current research still pays little attention to history. Applied to the service delivery of two …

Designing and implementing performance measurement systems in public contracts is not
easy. Little evidence is available on what measures work better in producing managerial …

When contracting out services to private actors, public authorities must be able to ensure
that the quality of services provided is satisfactory. Therefore, it is important to formulate …

This article explores the links between competition and contractor performance often
assumed by market theory. Using data from Florida social service contracting, the authors …

Why do local governments create and reform public service companies, given their
uncertain economic benefits and potential damage to accountability and service …

This paper argues that adopting a stakeholder approach to the study of contracting
outcomes produces more rich and rounded representations of the realities of the contracting …