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...

"Our Elgar Concise Introductions are inspiring and considered. They explain the key principles in business and are expertly written by some of the world's leading scholars. The aims of the series are two-fold: to pinpoint essential concepts of business and management, and to offer insights that...

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 /...

Building on Oliver Williamson's original analysis, the contributors introduce new ideas, different perspectives and provide tools for better understanding changes in the approach to regulation, the reform of public utilities, and the complex problems of governance. They draw largely upon a...

Does decentralization enhance service delivery and poverty reduction? Drawing on cutting edge research, expert contributors address this fundamental question facing policy-makers in developing as well as advanced countries. This timely book builds upon insights on the recent developments in the...

Worldwide, postal and delivery economics has attracted considerable interest. Numerous questions have arisen, including the role of regulation, funding the Universal Service Obligation, postal reform in Europe, Asia and North America, the future of national postal operators, demand and pricing...

pt. I. Services and innovation : conceptual and analytical frameworks -- pt. II. The nature of innovation in services : sectoral analyses and case studies -- pt. III. Organisational and strategic patterns for service innovation -- pt. IV. Innovation in services and through services : impact...

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...

1. Regulatory impact assessment : an overview -- 2. Current trends in the process and methods of regulatory impact assessment : mainstreaming RIA into policy processes -- 3. Indicators of regulatory quality -- 4. Measuring RIA quality and performance -- 5. Better regulation and impact assessment...

1. Public sector shock in Europe : between structural reforms and quantitative adjustment / Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead -- 2. Public sector adjustment and the threat to gender equality / Jill Rubery -- 3. Early application of fiscal austerity measures in the Baltic states / Jaan Masso and Kerly...