Does public ownership of utilities matter for local government water policies?

Does Organization Ownership Matter? Structure and Performance in For-profit, Nonprofit and Local Government Nursing Homes

We compare the structure and performance of for-profit (FP), nonprofit (NP) and local government (LG) organizations. These organizations differ in their ownership structure, objectives and agency relations. We conjecture that, compared to NP and LG, FP firms (a) delegate less decision-making power to employees, (b) provide more incentives and fewer fringe benefits, (c) monitor less, and (d) rel...

Does Nonprofit Ownership Matter?

Does Nationality of Ownership Matter

Do multinational firms exhibit different patterns of labor demand from purely domestic firms? Many standard models of trade and multinational companies suggest such differences. We examine this question using a plant-level panel covering U.K. manufacturing from 1973 through 1992, where we can distinguish U.K.-headquartered multinationals, foreign-owned multinationals, and domestic U.K. firms. A...

Does sense of ownership matter for rural water system sustainability? Evidence from Kenya

Community sense of ownership for rural water infrastructure is widely cited as a key factor in ensuring sustainable service delivery, but no empirical investigation has evaluated the relationship between sense of ownership and sustainability outcomes. This study examines the association between system sustainability and sense of ownership among households and water committees, using primary dat...

Personalized Extended Government for Local Public Administrations

This paper discusses the enterprise organization environment and reports our experience and lessons learned in developing an extension of the traditional virtual enterprise model, we named personalized extended government (PEG) model. The aim of such model is to simplify and enhance the effectiveness of e-Government services, by realizing Administration to Administration (A2A) and Administratio...