Government-to-Government Contracting: Stewardship, Agency, and Substitution
| Autor: | Howard P. Marvel, Mary K. Marvel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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| Zdroj: | International Public Management Journal. 11:171-192 |
| ISSN: | 1559-3169 1096-7494 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10967490802095870 |
| Popis: | This paper provides empirical evidence detailing the distinctive nature of service delivery provided through contracts with other governments. The results of a survey of Ohio city and county managers both confirm and stand in contrast to implications derived from stewardship theory. Consistent with stewardship, our data demonstrate that contracts with public sector service partners generate less intensive monitoring by contracting governments than do services contracted with private entities. In contrast to stewardship theory, we find that contracting governments do not use other governments for services requiring intensive monitoring. In an era of accountability and results-oriented management, reliance on trust may not satisfy constituents who seek evidence of effective service delivery. The inability of the contracting government to affect another government's service delivery reduces the attractiveness of that government as a contracting partner. If the tools of stewardship prove to be inadeq... |
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