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Relationship marketing: Its potential to enhance public-private sector initiatives

Faculty of Built Environment, Art and Design

In an effort to obtain value for money and eliminate waste and inefficiency, inherent within the public sector, Governments throughout the world are actively encouraging the private sector to become interested in funding public infrastructure projects. There are several examples within Australia...

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Developing a best practice framework for implementing public private partnerships (PPP) in Hong Kong

Cheung, Esther - 2009

Public Private Partnership (PPP) is a well established methodology for procuring public works projects. By incorporating the private sector’s expertise, efficiency, innovation, business sense, risk sharing, financing etc. into public works projects, the quality of public services and...

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Balancing public and private sector roles in an effective seed supply system

Loch, D. S.; Boyce, K. G. - 2003

A seed supply system can be defined in general terms as that combination of components, processes and their organisation, along with the interactions and support involved in the production and marketing of seeds of one or more species to a particular user–client grouping in an ongoing way....

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Public-private partnerships : a qualitative approach to prospects for pharmacy in the South African health care environment / Johan Christiaan Lamprecht

Lamprecht, Johan Christiaan - 2007

BACKGROUND: Powerful public-private partnerships (PPPs) can only be established if the partners areable to deal with complexity. Such partnerships may serve to stimulate local communityand economic development. Thus, it may maximise the effectiveness of local groupsand resources in meeting the...

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Knowledge management practices in rural areas of South Africa

Mbhalati, Oliver Jan - 2010

This research report captures a detailed exposition of an investigation on Knowledge Management (KM) practices in public and private sector entities in three industries (health, education and business loans) of Limpopo province – a proxy of the rural areas of South Africa. The investigation...

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Critical Success Factors of the BOOT Procurement System: Reflections from the Stadium Australia Case Study

Jefferies, Marcus; Gameson, Rod; Rowlinson, Steve - 2002

Recent trends in the provision of infrastructure development indicate that the private sector is playing an increasingly important role in the procurement process. This trend has partly arisen out of a necessity for the development of infrastructure to be undertaken at a rate that maintains and...

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An Analysis of the Impact of Cohesion Policy in the Transport Sector

Smékalová, Lenka - 2015

With reference to the general importance of transport infrastructure for regional devel-opment, this paper takes a different approach to the analysis of the European Union cohesion policy funding and views it in terms of transport oriented business entities. It analyses the data matrix of...

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Union strategies in representing ‘new’ workers : the comparative case of UK and Australian retail unions

Lynch, Samantha; Pyman, Amanda; Bailey, Janis; Price, … - 2009

of the few private sector service industries with significant union membership (Griffin et al 2003). The relevant unions … largest and largest unions in the UK and Australia respectively. However, despite this seeming numerical strength in … of the study is that any extension of representation and organisation by unions in the retail sector is valuable socially …

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Essays on the financial governance of firms

Wilson, Linus; Roberts, Kevin W. S. - 2007

Four essays, or chapters, model the capital structure, governance, and investment decisions as part of a sequential game. Each chapter is separate in its context, assumptions, and conclusions. The titles of the chapters are below.Abstracts of each essay or chapter can be found at the beginning...

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Labor turnover in the child-care industry: voice and exit

Hatch, Lynn A. - 2009

What relationship exists between working conditions and teacher turnover in child-care (early care and education) programs? Research has shown high staff turnover is a major factor affecting the quality of care. Using a new survey and data set I designed of union and randomly selected non-union...

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