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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Contract-Out"”.
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Public sector unions and the privatization of municipal services
… public sector unions in municipal decisions to contract out sanitation collection, and (2) the impact of sanitation contracting on sanitation workers' wages. Results indicate that the impact of public sanitation unions on sanitation contracting decisions depends upon their relations with city …
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Three essays on the development and diffusion of pharmaceutical innovations
… essay studies why pharmaceutical firms partly contract out the operational aspects of clinical trials to Contract Research Organizations. Using detailed project-level data, I find that (1) outsourcing intensity is sensitive to surprises in the demand for clinical trials services; (2) …
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Municipal Governance and Financial Health: An Analysis of the Institutional Structures of California Cities
… form of government, and cities that contract for public safety services will demonstrate stronger fiscal health compared to their general law, mayor-council, and full-service counterparts.</p> <p>To test these hypotheses, an ordinary least squares regression analysis is conducted to …
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A Preliminary Study into the Contracting Out of Services by Municipalities
The contracting out of services, by municipalities, while not quite a new phenomenon, is still relatively new, that it provides a rich source of study for public administration scholars and students. Some of the arguments that proponents of privatization make, are that: contracting out is more …
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Privatization of Public Services: Market Structure, Analysis of Performance and Implications for Anti-Trust
"Privatization through contracting has been promoted as a way for government to control costs, yet many services are still provided through apparently less efficient mechanisms. Researchers have speculated why this should be the case. Others have questioned whether privatization can meet all its …
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Corporate opportunity doctrine: A South African company law perspective
… common law, are now statutorily recognised in South Africa. The Companies Act 71 of 2008 codifies the fiduciary duties of directors and makes them mandatory, prescriptive, and unalterable and applies to all companies. According to this Act, directors are not allowed to contract out of these …
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Contracting Out in a Complex Network: An Effectiveness Analysis of EPC Program I
While government contracting out its work continues to proliferate and studies about this phenomenon have increased during the past two decades, still little is known about how effective government sponsored networks are at managing broad and complex networks of primarily non-governmental entities. …
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Outsourcing And The Pupil Transportation Industry In Minnesota: An Economic Evaluation
… and school districts’ prior experience with contractors are used as instruments to control for the endogenous decision to outsource. The first stage results from fixed-effects two stage least squares (2SLS) regression show that the two instruments, population density and the number of school …
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Is contracting out an efficient means of delivering health support services? : a case study of a public hospital in Uganda
… intended results do exist. One such reform is contracting out. The only national referral hospital Uganda has a long history of contracting out health support services, but there is hardly any empirical evidence of the resultant efficiency gains. To study the contractual arrangements in the …
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Bureaucratic Inequality: How Administrative Processes and Policy Design Shape Housing Outcomes
… public provision of welfare programs and towards contracting out. In doing so, public programs are left to the dynamics of market logic. The profit incentive that characterizes the private sector could create perilous externalities for government service recipients. Governments often frame the …
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Three Essays on Public Procurement
… for goods and services and acquires them using contracts. The objective of this dissertation is to address three unresolved questions in the literature regarding how the characteristics of products governments procure, and the environments in which they are bought and sold, shape government and …