Contracting for Public Services Hardback
by Carsten (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) Greve
Part of the Routledge Masters in Public Management series
Hardback
Description
Insightful and comprehensive and covering new subjects like globalization and IT, this text, international in its approach, provides a thorough introduction to the key phases of the contracting process and the skills required by managers in its implementation. These include:policy for contracting strategic purchasingunderstanding markets communicating the contracting decision designing and drafting the contract the role of the consumerthe regulation of service provision Illustrated throughout with practitioner case-studies from a range of OECD countries, this book presents an important new theoretical ‘contract management model’ and a ‘mature contract model', and explores the mechanisms, formal rules and informal norms that influence the way governments contract for public services.
This book is essential reading for all students of public management and all public service managers.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:224 pages, 4 Tables, black and white; 7 Line drawings, black and white; 7 Illustrations, black and w
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:24/08/2007
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- ISBN:9780415356541
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:224 pages, 4 Tables, black and white; 7 Line drawings, black and white; 7 Illustrations, black and w
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:24/08/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415356541
