Transaction costs and institutional explanations for government service production decisions

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Brown, TL; Potoski, M
• 署名单位: University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; Iowa State University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH AND THEORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1053-1858
• DOI: 10.1093/jopart/mug030
• 发表日期: 2003
• 页码: 441-468
• 关键词: public-service; privatization; ORGANIZATIONS

摘要

Governments not only choose which services to deliver to citizens, but they also choose how to deliver those services. Governments can produce services themselves or through a variety of external production mechanisms, including contracting with other governments, private firms, and nonprofits. In this article, we apply a transaction cost framework complemented with institutional and market theories to examine governments' service production decisions. Our analyses of a 1997 International City/County Management Association survey shows how governments choose service production mechanisms to manage the transaction costs inherent in delivering different types of services.