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Involvement of small and medium sized enterprises in the private realisation of public buildings
Heinecke, Bastian - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2002
This paper explores the procurement of public buildings in local authorities in the UK under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and its consequences for small and medium sized enterprises. Following an outline of the development of PFI in the UK, the paper explains the peculiarities of local...
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Social and labour consequences of the decentralization and privatization of municipal services the cases of Australia and New Zealand: working paper
Paddon, Michael - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2001
Focuses on water and electricity services.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966873
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Public provision vs. outsourcing of cultural services: Evidence from Italian cities
Bertacchini, Enrico; Dalle Nogare, Chiara - In: European Journal of Political Economy 35 (2014) C, pp. 168-182
we make reference to the empirical literature on the drivers of public services outsourcing. We consider Italian cities …
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Cross-Cutting Literature Review on the Drivers of Local Council Accountability and Performance
Lankina, Tomila - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
There is now a considerable body of literature on decentralization in diverse national contexts. Ascertaining factors that drive local accountability and performance have been the key concerns of these studies. Diverse ethodological instruments and approaches have been used—from large-n...
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Credit access and borrowing costs in Poland's agricultural credit market: a hedonic pricing approach
Petrick, Martin; Latruffe, Laure - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2003
Regression des effektiven Zinssatzes, der sowohl den nominalen Zinssatz als auch zusätzliche Transaktionskosten umfasst, werden … Zinssubventionierung durch gesteigerte Transaktionskosten und adverse Selektion von Kreditnehmern stark verringert wird. Allerdings führt …
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Estimating internal transaction costs: the case of corporate dairy farms in Russia’s Moscow oblast
Svetlov, Nikolai M. - In: German Journal of Agricultural Economics 58 (2009) 8
Schätzung der internen Transaktionskosten mit Hilfe von beobachteten Outputmengen und -preisen. Das empirische Modell ist ein …, dass die internen Transaktionskosten extrem hoch sind und nicht nur zu signifikanten allokativen Verzerrungen führen …, sondern darüber hinaus den strukturellen Wandel behindern. Die Verringerung der internen Transaktionskosten sollte von daher …
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Burgeoning Chinese postpartum nursing enterprises and birth tourism - the perspective from transaction cost entrepreneurship
Yan, Ho-Don; Chen, Chyong Ling Judy - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 10 (2014) 4, pp. 502-518
nuclear family becomes popular. An opportunity window opens up for outsourcing DM services. To entice expectant mothers to …
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Transaction Management: Value Creation by Reducing Transaction Costs
Butter, Frank A.G. den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
This discussion paper led to a publication in (W.D. Nelson (Ed.)), <I>Advances in Business and Management</I> (pp. 1-32), New York: Nova Publishers, 2011. In this era of globalization we see an increase in specialization: the production chain issplit up in more and more parts and the production of...</i>
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To Make or Buy: An Allocation of Attention
Gifford, Sharon - In: Contributions to Theoretical Economics 4 (2004) 1, pp. 1144-1144
in-house has an opportunity cost: the neglect of potential new products/markets. Outsourcing production economizes on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005086913
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Procurement: The Transaction Costs Perspective in a Globalising World
Butter, Frank A.G. den - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
Fragmentation of production into more and more complex supply chains is a prominent feature of globalisation. It implies that transaction costs as part of total costs of ownership carry a large weight in procurement decisions. An analysis of the various types of transaction costs is also...
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