In economic literature comparisons between the American and German Council of Economic Advisors lead to the result that the American Council works quite well, whereas the German Council is broadly criticised. Taking a closer look these conclusions are disputable. Therefore, in this contribution...

Neue Erkenntnisse der Verhaltens- und Neurooekonomie stellen das Menschenbild des Homo oeconomicus zunehmend in Frage und ruecken einen kooperativen Akteur ins Zentrum der wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Diskussion sowie der unternehmerischen Praxis. Auf Grundlage von Elinor Ostroms Forschung zu...

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have become popular worldwide as a way of improving health care service delivery. In order to enhance our knowledge of PPPs in the health care sector, we conduct a systematic review of forty-six articles published in peer-reviewed journals for the period of...

Empirical data show the significance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) for providing public services. Financial sustainability, cutback management and budget consolidation are no longer possible without including SOEs. This paper examines the ways that public authorities reported on the capital,...

The decision to provide services of general interest by public or private enterprises has to be based on the following key issue: should one refer to these services as public goods? This question cannot be answered generally but has to be addressed on a case-tocase basis. Although there are some...

In economic literature comparisons between the American and German Council of Economic Advisors lead to the result that the American Council works quite well, whereas the German Council is broadly criticized. On a closer look, these conclusions are disputable. Therefore, in this contribution we...

[Inhaltsverzeichnis] Ulf Papenfuß, Matthias Redlich und Lars Steinhauer: Service Learning im Public Management der Universität Leipzig: Perspektiven für Lehre und Forschung, S.1. Henning Dietze, Max Ludewig, Karolin Pötzsch und Marius Scheibner: Nachhaltigkeitskennzahlen in der Kinder- und...

[Einführung und Motivation ...] Die Studie bietet eine erste Orientierungshilfe für Praxis und Wissenschaft. Sie leistet damit auch eine notwendige Basis für weiterführende vergleichende Analysen des Beteiligungsberichtswesens im internationalen Kontext. In Kapitel 2 werden Relevanz von und...

Empirical studies have shown that state-owned enterprises (SOEs), and especially the compensation of topmanagers, are very relevant to the performance and sustainable provision of public services. Whereas there are numerous studies on the compensation of top-management of private sector...