Several empirical regularities concerning firm growth rates and industry firm-size distributions have been developed by studying primarily mature industries. The primary purpose of this article is to bring together and extend empirical regularities on the evolution of new industries and to use...

This article investigates the nature of the service production of local governments. The incentives and constraints embedded in different organizational forms--public, nonprofit, and for-profit organizations--have implications for both production and transaction costs of various production...

Local social service agencies throughout the world have begun encouraging or requiring social service providers to form community-based networks for the delivery of publicly funded social services. Little is known, however, about the nature of the resulting networks. In this article we develop a...

<title>Abstract</title> Despite their increasing importance worldwide, community foundations remain rare in much of East Asia. This comparative analysis of three community-based foundations currently operating in Japan, China and South Korea seeks to understand the role they play and factors that promote or...

This paper considers the determinants of effective cross-sectoral partnerships for the delivery of publicly funded services. A multivariate model of the influence on service delivery effectiveness of the inter- organizational governance arrangements, the nature of inter-dependencies in service...

Although the potential benefits of collaboration have received considerable attention, determinants of its effectiveness remain poorly understood. This paper explores the role of partner selection on the perceived effectiveness of service delivery collaborations. Using data on children and...

Local governments that choose to externally produce a service can contract with other governments, for-profit firms, or nonprofit organizations. This contractor choice is modeled as one in which the local government decisionmaker minimizes service delivery costs, both production and transaction...