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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Contracting Out"”.
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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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Contracting out labor market dynamism: domestic outsourcing, firms’ recruiting behavior, and development
… was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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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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Has Outsourcing/Contracting Out Saved Money and/or Improved Service Quality? A Vote-Counting Analysis
Most privatization literature, of which outsourcing/contracting out is a sub-set, discusses: 1) localized anecdotes of how organizations privatized; 2) privatization's history; 3) its types; and/or 4) its pros and cons. What is missing is a methodologically defensible, comprehensive, macro-view of …
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An evaluation of contracting out government services in a privatisation context in the Sultanate of Oman
"Contracting out" government services, as a method of privatisation, has been extensively used in Oman since 1979. The author's organisation has adopted it since 1993 in response to the challenges it faces in providing the operation and maintenance services required by its clients. <br/><br/>This …
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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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The Promises and Pitfalls of the Competitive Bidding Process
… have suggested the expansion of private sector contracting into schools, public agency management, health and human services, police and fire, and here‐to‐fore unseen and untested service areas. As privatization and contracting out gains traction, both public administration and business scholars …
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Public sector unions and the privatization of municipal services
… 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 management. …
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The practice of risk management in outsourcing and its impacts : an empirical investigation
The outsourcing literature has a great deal of work describing how to practice risk management. Further, it details the benefits of specific risk management practices. It is surprising then that risk management in outsourcing arrangements is often avoided or treated as an administrative hurdle. …
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Outsourcing transportation infrastructure maintenance : a theoretical approach with application to JR East
… One of the solutions undertaken nowadays is contracting out and utilizing contractors' efficiency for cost cutting and performance improvements. Actually, highway agencies in the US have already tried several pilot programs, employing performance-based contract, aiming at reducing their cost …
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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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Evaluation of production outsourcing effectiveness in the rolling stock manufacturing sector
… Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2023.
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Values Public Managers Hold, Organizational Environments, and Public Service Characteristics in Explaining the Choice of Public Service Delivery Modes: Focused on County and City Governments in Virginia
… modes, the more local governments choose contracting out. In contrast, the more County Administrators and City Managers perceive the importance of fairness, political accountability, and employee safety values from Public Value Management in determining public service delivery modes, the …
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Economics of military outsourcing
This thesis is concerned with outsourcing the production of defence and military activities to private providers. Theoretical approaches to the issue are reviewed and found to make insufficiently specific predictions to be useful in assessing the scope for outsourcing. Instead four empirical …
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Legal issues in the contextual diffusion of independent regulatory agencies in Nigeria
… regulatory state, characterised by a thinning out of the state; and the emergence of an institutional innovation: the Independent Regulatory Agency. Its rise, growth and diffusion across jurisdictions and sectors, and most recently in developing countries including Nigeria have been …
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The dynamics of accountability in public sector reforms
… as an example, it is shown that the reform outcomes in both countries are the result of a complex process of powering, puzzling and institutional constraints where different situational interpretations of problems, interests and administrative legacies had to be balanced. Accountability thus …
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Investigating vendor selection criteria in information technology outsourcing using multiple criteria decision making
… Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2017.
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Privatization of Educational Services by Contractual Agreement in Virginia Public Schools
… of privatization and factors associated with contracting out such as the perceived effectiveness of contracted services, the annual budget allocation, the contractual arrangement, and the future status of privatization. This research will benefit the professionals responsible for the financial …
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