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Contracting out, an Empirical Study on Motives
Wassenaar, Mattheus; Groot, Tom; Gradus, Raymond - 2010
Municipalities may have various motives for decisions on the mode of their task execution. Empirical studies – based on … of additional motives and to test these statistically. As we find, municipalities do not regularly evaluate the service … contracting out decisions. Therefore, we held interviews with Dutch municipal managers about the motives for the actual mode of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325826
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Contracting Out, an Empirical Study on Motives
Wassenaar, Tom; Groot, Tom; Gradus, Raymond H. J. M. - 2010
Municipalities may have various motives for decisions on the mode of their task execution. Empirical studies – based on … of additional motives and to test these statistically. As we find, municipalities do not regularly evaluate the service … contracting out decisions. Therefore, we held interviews with Dutch municipal managers about the motives for the actual mode of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014188345
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Efficiency Effects of Privatising Refuse Collection: Be careful and Alternatives present
Dijkgraaf, E.; Gradus, R. - 2011
Dutch municipalities between 1998 and 2010. The modes we consider are private contracts, intermunicipal cooperation, public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326416
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Entrepreneurial Couples
Dahl, Michael S.; van Praag, Mirjam; Thompson, Peter - 2014
We study possible motivations for co-entrepenurial couples to start up a joint firm, using a sample of 1,069 Danish couples that established a joint enterprise between 2001 and 2010. We compare their pre-entry characteristics, firm performance and postdissolution private and financial outcomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377200
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Keeping in Touch with Citizens Online: Social Media Usage in Dutch Local Government
Faber, Bram; Budding, Tjerk; Gradus, Raymond - 2019
, this article does empirical work on the ways in which social media is used by all 380 Dutch municipalities. It focuses on … populated municipalities with a larger and a higher-educated population use their Twitter account significantly different from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114754
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Assessing Electronic Service Delivery in Municipalities
Budding, Tjerk; Faber, Bram; Gradus, Raymond - 2017
In the Netherlands, electronic service delivery has become an important issue in many municipalities. Using the … delivery for all Dutch municipalities, we show that there is a large variety among the municipalities in the extent to which … municipalities. Some trends can be discerned, most notably the strong relationship of e-government adoption with demographic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011819480
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Management Practices: Are Not For Profits Different?
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Propper, Carol; Smith, Sarah - 2011
Recent studies have demonstrated the importance of good management for firm performance. Here, we focus on management in not-for-profits (NFPs). We present a model predicting that management quality will be lower in NFPs compared to for-profits (FPs), but that outputs may not be worse if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326448
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Why don't we see more Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Lithuania?
Aidis, Ruta - 2002
This paper identifies the specific external barriers to SME development in Lithuania. An analysis of 332 SME owners reveals that formal barriers (taxes, frequent changes to and ambiguity of tax policies) and environmental barriers (low purchasing power, lack of funds for business investment)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324781
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Decision Initiation, Decision Implementation, and the Allocation of Decision Rights
Sloof, Randolph; von Siemens, Ferdinand A. - 2015
Organizations must not only take the right decisions, they must also ensure that these decisions are effectively implemented. Fama and Jensen (1983) argue that the same members of many organization are often responsible for both decision initiation and implementation. If these have social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403558
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On the Dynamics of Interest Group Formation and Endogenous Policymaking
Sadiraj, Vjollca; Tuinstra, Jan; van Winden, Frans A.A.M. - 2000
We present a dynamic model of the interaction between interest groupsand policymakers, featuringendogenous interest group formation. We show that complicated dynamicpatterns in economicpolicies may arise once interest group formation is taken intoaccount.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324602