The Best Value (BV) regime in UK local government became mandatory on 1 April 2000. This paper explores the international sources of the ideas behind BV. It maps out the evolution of BV from an approach primarily directed at achieving high quality local services into an approach which is...

Since the liberalisation of markets during the 1990s, the pressure on public sector entities to demonstrate their performance in financial and non-financial terms has increased. Compared to the private sector, accountability expectations and obligations are higher for public enterprises due to...

In the last two decades there has been a strong drive by the EU-Regulation of liberalizing the service delivery of Services of General Economic Interest. Public enterprises are under pressure to be more market-orientated. In Germany there has been a long tradition that public enterprises are...