Rethinking Governance in Public Service Outsourcing
Private Delivery in Sustainable Ownership
By Nina Boeger
Published
Jul 19, 2024Page count
176 pagesISBN
978-1529212846Dimensions
203 x 127 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Jul 19, 2024Page count
176 pagesISBN
978-1529212860Dimensions
203 x 127 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Jul 19, 2024Page count
176 pagesISBN
978-1529212860Dimensions
203 x 127 mmImprint
Bristol University PressCompelling and robust, this book provides an analysis of challenges in public service outsourcing and considers how to avoid failure in the future.
Crucially, it proposes a governance mechanism where outsourcing public services nurtures a less extractive corporate form that is oriented towards a productive purpose beyond maximising shareholder value, with implications well beyond public services. Under these proposals, fostering purpose-driven companies that are independently governed and use profit to pursue purpose can improve both public services and wider economic organisation.
Examining how barriers to implementing this idea within the existing EU and UK legal frameworks may be addressed, the book formulates actionable policy proposals.
Nina Boeger is Professor of Law at City, University of London.
1. Introduction
2. Public Service Outsourcing
3. Typical Problems in Public Service Outsourcing
4. Existing Solutions
5. Introducing Productive Ownership
6. Nurturing Productive Ownership
7. The Legal Framework
8. Conclusion