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The economics of evaluation in public programs
Link, Albert N. - 2011
This research collection illustrates the wide range of methodologies and methods available for the evaluation of public programs. All these methods address the benefits of the programs and most compare the benefits to costs, but the types of benefits and their measures vary greatly across the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852147
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Utility regulation in competitive markets : problems and progress
Robinson, Colin (contributor) - 2007
Introduction / Colin Robinson -- 1. Beyond regulation / Stephen Littlechild -- Comment / Colin Robinson -- 2. Ronald coase and the spectrum question / Thomas W. Hazlett -- Comment / Leonard Waverman -- 3. European energy liberalisation : progress and problems / Jorge Vasconcelos -- Comment /...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420011
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Innovation in public sector services : entrepreneurship, creativity and management
Windrum, Paul (contributor); Koch, Per M. (contributor) - 2008
This groundbreaking book provides new key insights and opens up an important research agenda. The book develops a new taxonomy of the different types of innovation found in public sector services, and investigates the key features and drivers of public sector entrepreneurship. The book contains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852048
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Contracts and trust in alliances : discovering, creating and appropriating value
Vlaar, Paul W. L. - 2008
advances a more integrative framework. He probes issues such as: • the tension between the need and the ability to contract … control • dialectical tensions stemming from contract application • standardization of contracting practices. By exploring … -- ch. 3. Need versus ability to contract -- ch. 4. How trust and contracts coevolve -- ch. 5. Functions of negotiation and …
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The economics of outsourcing
Willcocks, Leslie P. - 2014
Street Journal, A1 -- Macneil, I.R. (1980), The New Social Contract: An Inquiry into Modern Contractual Relations, New Haven …, and Relational Contract Law', Northwestern University Law Review, 72 (6), 854-905 -- Ronald Coase (1998), 'The New … (8), August, 707-25 -- Paul L. Joskow (1987), 'Contract Duration and Relationship-Specific Investments: Empirical …
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