pursuing multiple sustainability objectives affect decision-making efficiency and how decision-making structures might …

indicates that public sector outsourcing generally reduces costs without hurting quality. This is clearly the case for …We survey the literature on the effects of public sector outsourcing. Guided by theory, we systematically arrange … "perfectly contractible services" like garbage collection, but outsourcing often seems to work reasonably well also for some …

to reduce costs and focus on core businesses. The purchasing outsourcing has the largest correlation coefficients with …The aim of this study is to investigate whether outsourcing activities in east China are associated with a theoretical … survey indicate that outsourcing will be more extensively practiced in the future, the principal outsourcing motivations are …

We review the literature on public sector outsourcing to explore if the theoretical predictions from the incomplete … magnitude of their contractibility problems. The empirical studies point at rather favourable outsourcing outcomes, in terms of … costs and quality, for services without severe contracting problems. The picture is more mixed for services with tougher …

economics ; incomplete contracts ; construction ; agency theory ; industry studies ; outsourcing ; procurement …