Rethinking Governance in Public Service Outsourcing
Private Delivery in Sustainable Ownership
By Nina Boeger
Published
Jul 19, 2024Page count
200 pagesISBN
978-1529212846Dimensions
203 x 127 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Jul 19, 2024Page count
200 pagesISBN
978-1529212860Dimensions
203 x 127 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Jul 19, 2024Page count
200 pagesISBN
978-1529212860Dimensions
203 x 127 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
Rethinking Governance in Public Service Outsourcing
Compelling 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 less extractive and more sustainable corporate organizations that are oriented towards a productive purpose beyond maximising shareholder value, with implications well beyond public services. Under these proposals, supporting firms that are independently and inclusively governed and use profit to pursue purpose can improve both public services and wider economic organisation.
The book examines how barriers to implementing this idea within the existing legal framework for public procurement may be addressed, and it formulates actionable policy proposals.
“Despite its huge importance, public procurement may seem a technical subject, but Nina Boeger successfully brings it to life through her excellent analysis from the viewpoint of sustainable corporate governance.” Tony Prosser, University of Bristol Law School
“This book pushes the debate in an important direction. Its proposals to strengthen outsourcing governance by aligning public and private mechanisms should be taken seriously.” Albert Sanchez-Graells, University of Bristol Law School
“Tackles the challenges and moral hazards of outsourcing public services through a refreshingly unique perspective.” Andrew Dean, Clifford Chance
“This is a wide ranging, thorough and considered analysis of public procurement. It is clearly written and will appeal to both general and specialist readers. In its treatment of alternative approaches to public procurement, the text offers intriguing possibilities for sustainable and equitable delivery of public services." Anita Mangan, University of Bristol
"Amidst rising spending on public procurement and growing evidence of serious failures in service provision by profit-oriented, often highly-financialized, private providers, Nina Boeger's innovative, thoughtful and timely book explores some of the ways in which alternative, more inclusive, less financially oriented providers might be integrated into, and used to improve, the provision of public services. In challenging the idea that the choice is a simple one between provision by private or state-owned companies, the book serves the important purpose of highlighting not merely the need for experimentation but the wide range of institutional possibility." Paddy Ireland, University of Bristol
Nina Boeger is Professor of Law at City, University of London.
Introduction
1- Outsourcing Public Services
2- Problems in Public Service Outsourcing
3- Solutions in Governance
4- Solutions in Ownership
5- Sustainable Ownership
6- Nurturing Sustainable Ownership
7- The Legal Framework
Conclusion
