Introducing choice and competition in public services was supposed to put citizens in the “driver's seat”, making them in charge of their service provision. Introducing choice often is indeed beneficial for citizens. However, it sometimes also leads to increased inequality among citizens....

Existing literature on mixed oligopoly focuses on competition among different types of firms but ignores their possible cooperation. We allow cooperation between public firm and private firm through subcontracting in a Hotelling mixed duopoly model. We find that when subcontracting is possible,...

Interventions aimed at increasing priority for employee safety could lead to better safety climate and safety behavior of employees. However, current studies reporting on safety climate interventions lack diversity in contexts and settings, they focus mainly on supervisors and do not take into...

After one year, public schools managed by private contractors in Liberia raised student learning by 60 percent, compared to standard public schools. But costs were high, performance varied across contractors, and contracts authorized the largest contractor to push excess pupils and...

In 2019, the macroeconomic indicators directly affecting the housing market were the following. The consumer price index stood at 3 percent, households' income movement which is important for the housing market in the course of the major part of the year (after a plunge in Q1) posted positive....

We compare the welfare results of mixed duopoly model where a firm can be private, public or partial-delegated-public. We consider two types of partial-delegated-public firms. In partial- delegated-public with location delegation, the firm chooses location to maximize its profit while the social...

In 2008, the Law Faculty at Monash University was awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage grant entitled Applying Human Rights legislation in Closed Environments: a Strategic Framework for Managing Compliance. The research commenced in 2009 and was completed in 2012.The ARC Monash...

Purpose. Recent studies have suggested that the specific characteristics of public organizations may have a bearing on the implementation of organizational change. Public organizations typically operate in an environment characterized by checks and balances, shared power, divergent interests and...