...Geraldine Arbogast Rasheli Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the transaction costs involved in managing procurement contracts in the public sector, particularly at the lower and higher level of local governments from the clients’ perspective. Design/methodology/approach The paper...

...Mike Rowe; Jason Ferdinand; Ruth McDonald; Kath Checkland; Steve Harrison Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the impact of contracts on general practise in the UK National Health Service. In particular, it is concerned with the response of practitioners to the apparent flexibilities...

... exploration and production result in significant business risks. The petroleum fiscal systems in many developing countries are now opting for production‐sharing contracts (PSC) as a new model of agreement for the exploration and production of oil and gas resources. This paper extends the principal‐agent...

... Local government Performance Contracts Australia In the last two decades, fundamental change has been introduced in public sector employment in Australia at the commonwealth, state and local government levels (Hughes, 1998). In the state of Victoria, statutory changes in local government (VLG...

... effectiveness, team building, etc. and in turn overall productivity of the project organization would improve. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Concurrent engineering Organization restructuring Team building Contracts Materials procurement Risk management Many industries are in a period of rapid...

...John Darwin; Joanne Duberley; Phil Johnson During the 1990s the contract has become a key feature in the restructuring of the UK public sector. Currently available literature demonstrates an awareness that the implementation of contracting must entail new forms of management control...