Economic Efficiency and Political Capture in Public Service Contracts

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Gagnepain ◽  
Marc Ivaldi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Efficiency ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Service Contracts

Effects of the award of public service contracts on the performance and payroll of winning firms

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Ravenda ◽  
Maika Melina Valencia-Silva ◽  
Josep Maria Argiles-Bosch ◽  
Josep García-Blandón
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Social Goals ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Difference In Differences ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Service Contracts ◽  
Performance Dimensions ◽  
Service Procurement ◽  
Medium Firms

Abstract We investigate the effects of an exogenous demand shock arising from the award of public service contracts by Italian public administrations in 2015 on a sample of 1782 winning small and medium firms that were not awarded any contract during the previous 3 years. Using a difference-in-differences model with continuous treatments estimated on a propensity score matched sample, our results reveal that higher awarded values enhance various performance dimensions of the winning firms as well as their average payroll per employee. Nonetheless, higher winning rebates moderate the positive effects of the award on payroll by inducing the winning firms to downward manage both salaries and social security contributions per employee to maintain their desired level of performance. The effects are mostly significant for smaller microenterprises. In addition, winning rebates negatively affect the performance of firms in the construction industry by leading these firms to downward manage the payroll of their employees more aggressively than firms in other industries. Our findings provide novel insights for the implementation of industrial policies aimed at achieving sustainable macroeconomic and social goals, within the business fabric, through the effective management of public service procurement.

Managing Public Service Contracts: Aligning Values, Institutions, and Markets

2006 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trevor L Brown ◽  
Matthew Potoski ◽  
David M Van Slyke
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Service Contracts

scholarly journals Linked government administrative data: Public or Private?

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Stafford
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Administrative Data ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Data Linkage ◽  
The Public ◽  
Government Services ◽  
Service Contracts ◽  
Public Data

Background with rationaleIt is commonplace in policy discussions concerning administrative data linkage to presuppose that the data referred to is government services data. But this is not always the case. Much of the data public services hold is now collected via intermediaries, such as Non-Government Organisations, operating under service contracts with one or multiple government departments. Nor are these the only administrative data holdings applicable to clients of government services. There are also vast private administrative data holdings – including utility data, and consumer behaviour data. Creating and amending legislation that governs public service practices in this domain is increasingly made complex when private companies partner with governments agencies on policy development and evaluation work. Understanding the concept of public data for public good in light of this expanded sense of administrative data opens the door to deeper questions about the role linked data can play in government decision making. Main aimThe paper problematizes how legislation governing the linking of government administrative data is scoped and discusses how public service work can be affected by the opaque communication networks that increasingly span the public-private sector divide. Methods/ApproachAfter contextualising the challenge of legislating for administrative data linkage in the current work of the Office of the National Data Commissioner (ONDC) in Australia, this paper tests aspects of the proposed legislation against the extent to which it permits the possibility of ‘data laundering’. ResultsThe presentation demonstrates the need for greater sophistication in the specification of data linkage and sharing legislation in service of the public good. Conclusions This paper indicates that contemporary practices governing the linkage of government administrative data holdings is porous to the aims of extra-governmental organisations and may benefit by better incorporating legislative structures that govern private analytical services entities.

Managing Public Service Contracts: Aligning Values, Institutions, and Markets*

2017 ◽  
pp. 155-175
Author(s):  
Trevor L. Brown ◽  
Matthew Potoski ◽  
David M. Van Slyke
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Service Contracts

Unpacking the Relationship between Public Service Contracts and Provider Behavior

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (1) ◽  
pp. 10381
Author(s):  
Clare FitzGerald ◽  
Mara Airoldi ◽  
Eleanor Carter ◽  
Jason Coupet ◽  
Clare FitzGerald ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Provider Behavior ◽  
Service Contracts ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Academic Commentary: 'Permanently Changing? Operationalising Research into Organisational Change in the Third Sector'

2015 ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Hayley Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Organisational Change ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Third ◽  
Service Contracts ◽  
Third Sector Organisations ◽  
Policy Streams ◽  
The One ◽  
The Ideal

Organisations are never static; they are changing all the time.  Unsurprisingly, actors in ‘third sector organisations’ (the diverse array of organisations that do not fit into the ideal type constructs of market or state organisations) experience and implement change in many different ways. On the one hand, there are numerous types of third sector organisations operating in different policy streams, locations, and contexts. On the other, third sector organisations engage in a variety of activities; some may deliver public service contracts, whilst others focus on traditional civil society and volunteer based activities. Many more may sit somewhere in between (Billis, 2010).

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