Mixed Companies and Local Governance: No Man Can Serve Two Masters

Cruz, Nuno F. da; Marques, Rui Cunha

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9299.2011.02020.x

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“…Simultaneously, the data corroborate the hypothesis that transaction costs and principal-agent problems induce a higher chance of failure (hypothesis 1a). This chance of failure increases under joint or mixed ownership (hypotheses 3a and 3b), which exacerbate transaction costs and principal-agent problems, and particularly the problem of serving multiple masters (Da Cruz and Marques 2012;Van Thiel 2016;Waterman and Meier 1998) is pressing and should be studied further. However, if these problems are overcome, cooperation with the private sector or between localities through a MOC can be very beneficial, as the data demonstrate (hypotheses 3a and 3b).…”

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“…Five studies, all large-N studies, find that mixed MOCs realise real efficiency gains (Bognetti and Robotti 2007;Filippini and Prioni 2003;Garrone, Grilli, and Rousseau 2013;Marra 2007;Pérez-López, Prior, and Zafra-Gómez 2015). Furthermore, three other studies, all small-N case studies, emphasise potential efficiency gains from mixed MOCs, but show that these could not come to long-term fruition due to goal conflict and negotiation problems (Da Cruz and Marques 2012;Marques and Berg 2011) or labour conflict (Swarts and Warner 2014). Only Roy and Yvrande-Billon (2007) (a large N-study) finds a negative effect of mixed MOCs in technical efficiency.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…Da Cruz and Marques (2012) narrate particular cases where mixed MOCs faced goal conflicts and where contracts required costly renegotiation shortly after their founding, and Marques and Berg (2011) discuss in-depth the difficulty in saliently writing up contracts for mixed MOCs, giving recommendations on how to prevent contract failure. Swarts and Warner (2014) highlight a case where a mixed MOC provided immediate gains in efficiency, mostly through labour restructuring, which were eroded by subsequent unionisation.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Municipally owned corporations (MOCs) are increasingly utilised to provide local public services, but little remains known about their efficiency and effectiveness. In this article, we offer a typology of MOCs, explore the variables that affect their behaviour, and perform a systematic review of public administration articles published between 2001 and 2015 on their efficiency and effectiveness. We find that MOCs are often more efficient than local bureaucracies in the provision of services such as refuse collection, water distribution, and transit services, although they also have high initial failure rates. We conclude that municipally owned corporations are a viable means for delivering some local public services for localities capable of initiating and managing complex contracts. In light of the scarcity of literature on this topic, our conclusions remain tentative, and we encourage additional research into this growing phenomenon.

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“…Do public administrators (often known as charter authorizers) award contracts even where there is insufficient competition and, if so, with what implications for corruption and the ability to effectively manage and, where necessary, to punish these schools when they know that their governmental supervisors cannot easily replace them (if at all)? While these questions are in need of answers-especially in reference to charter schools-one study examined a bidding process wherein private companies were sought as partners for school construction in Portugal (Da Cruz & Marques, 2012). Here, the Portuguese government worked with the only willing private sector partner and, in so doing, found that this company could not "serve two masters" in that it prioritized profit making over public sector needs (Da Cruz & Marques, 2012, p. 756).…”

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Public-private partnerships, accountability, and competition: Theory versus reality in the charter schools of Bogotá, Colombia

Edwards

DeMatthews

Hartley³

2017

EPAA

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While charter schools are among the most prevalent public-private partnerships in the education sector, they are frequently only assessed by measuring outputs such as enrollment and test scores. In contrast, this article assesses the logic model behind charter schools, specifically the mechanisms of accountability and competition, through a study of the Concession Schools in Bogotá, Colombia, using a realist evaluation methodology. Despite the program's success in increasing access in marginalized areas, findings indicate that accountability and competition were hindered in practice-because of insufficient choice for parents and other unique organizational and Education Policy Analysis Archives Vol. 25 No. 10 2 political factors. For example, particular issues emerged that influenced the availability of viable charter operators to open and manage schools while political orientations, political shifts, and evaluation design issues affected the charter authorizer's ability to monitor, assess, and hold charters accountable. Successfully operationalizing public-private partnerships requires that the mechanisms underlying each link in the policy theory are carefully designed and supported, that they directly connect, and that the functioning of one does not adversely impact the others-a difficult task given the dynamic and sensitive nature of such mechanisms and the imperfect world of educational reform. The article concludes by reflecting on a number of issues, including charter school exit from the market, the need for accountability of charter authorizers themselves, the increasing political clout of charter management organizations and their allies, and the ways that these actors circumvent or avoid public accountability. Keywords: charter schools; Colombia; public-private partnerships; accountability; competition; charter authorizers Asociaciones público-privadas, rendición de cuentas y competencia: Teoría versus realidad en las escuelas chárter de Bogotá, Colombia Resumen: Si bien las escuelas chárter se encuentran entre las asociaciones público-privadas más relevantes en el sector educativo, con frecuencia sólo son evaluadas por sus indicadores de cobertura/matrícula y por los resultados de las pruebas. Tomando distancia de esta tendencia, este artículo evalúa los componentes del modelo que hay detrás de las escuelas chárter y, específicamente, se enfoca en los mecanismos de rendición de cuentas y competencia, en un estudio de caso sobre las Escuelas por Concesión en Bogotá, Colombia, utilizando una metodología de evaluación realista. A pesar del éxito del programa al permitir el aumento en el acceso a la escuela en áreas marginadas, los hallazgos indican que la rendición de cuentas y la competencia se vieron restringidas en la práctica debido a la escasa posibilidad que tienen los padres para elegir y a otros factores particulares de índole política y organizativa. Por ejemplo, surgieron problemas específicos que influyeron en la disponibilidad de agentes idóneos que pudieran asumir la apertura y ad...

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“…The IT department is responsible for operating and supporting all necessary IT services for a SOE. Compared to other departments of SOEs, IT departments more likely face organizational transformations caused by increasing initiatives of public private partnerships in the IT sector (Sharma 2012;Da Cruz and Marques 2012), realization of IT outsourcing activities (Joha and Janssen 2010;Cordella and Willcocks 2012) or the upcoming trend of IT insourcing (Damanpour et al 2013;Warner and Hefetz 2012). With these issues in mind, our work addresses the following research question (RQ): new enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and apply this framework in a case study with a German airport.…”

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How to Overcome Transformation Barriers in IT Departments of State-Owned Enterprises

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Herzfeldt²,

Krcmar³

2018

JPAG

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This paper develops a framework for analyzing organizational change in information technology (IT) departments of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and applies that framework to a case study of a German airport that is majority-owned by the German federal government. Specifically, we derive a framework from literature to systematically identify transformation barriers for introducing new enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and business processes in IT departments of SOEs. This framework is based on the punctuated equilibrium model and considers dynamic process incorporation, explicit stakeholder integration, a detailed representation of the change process, and characteristics of public employees as main factors. We then apply the framework in a case study research approach and show how the ISSN 2161-7104 2018 http://jpag.macrothink.org 87 framework allows identification of transformation barriers hidden to management but involved in the organizational change process (e.g., required change of organizational structures, required change of service-level-agreements). The framework can be a valuable tool for both researchers and practitioners to actively shape the effects of organizational transformation in SOEs and to identify factors that influence the change process. Journal of Public Administration and Governance

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Mixed Companies and Local Governance: No Man Can Serve Two Masters

Cited by 109 publications

References 43 publications

The efficiency and effectiveness of municipally owned corporations: a systematic review

The efficiency and effectiveness of municipally owned corporations: a systematic review

Public-private partnerships, accountability, and competition: Theory versus reality in the charter schools of Bogotá, Colombia

How to Overcome Transformation Barriers in IT Departments of State-Owned Enterprises

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