Outsourcing is a practice used by different companies to reduce costs by transferring working with outside suppliers … rather than performing them internally. Cutting costs are presented as a key benefit in hiring an outsourcing service …-core activities. The study presented here is an early stage of research to be developed on outsourcing in Portugal and its position in …

, it is somewhat surprising that many social scientists have preferred to explain government outsourcing by the pursuit of … economic efficiency. Starting out from different theories, we investigate political explanations of government outsourcing … using a Swedish data set in which outsourcing varies between municipalities and over time, as well as between services. Our …

Outsourcing public provision of services tends to lower labor intensity and increase its efficiency. Costs are usually … innovation in education, but the picture is ambiguous for health care. Natural monopolies are unsuitable for outsourcing. Network …