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- Title
Outsourcing and the Critical Need for Access to Capital.
- Authors
Funkhouser, Mark
- Abstract
The author comments on the report "Outsourcing Public Service Delivery: Management Responses in Noncompetitive Markets," by Amanda M. Girth, Amir Hefetz, Jocelyn M. Johnston, and Mildred E. Warner from this issue. He describes his experience with contracting out the mowing of city parks as city auditor of Kansas City, Missouri. He argues that contracting is most effect in municipalities able to increase market competition and labor productivity through strategic capital investments
- Subjects
MUNICIPAL service outsourcing; ECONOMIC competition; MANAGEMENT of public contracts; PUBLIC investments; ECONOMICS
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 2012, Vol 72, Issue 6, p900
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Opinion
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-6210.2012.02655.x