Institutional Shifts In Inter-Municipal Service Delivery

“Factors Explaining Inter-municipal Cooperation in Service Delivery: A Meta-Regression Analysis”

Inter-municipal cooperation is an important public service delivery reform, whose drivers move beyond simple concerns with costs and economic efficiency, to policy issues related to governance structure and spatial context. We conduct a metaregression analysis based on the existing multivariate empirical literature to explore what factors explain divergence in results in the existing empirical ...

Public-Private Partnerships and Cooperative Agreements in Municipal Service Delivery

This study uses quantitative and qualitative survey data on the use of public-private partnership in provision and production of public services by municipalities in predominantly rural New Hampshire (USA). Descriptive analysis suggests that town officials are less satisfied with the quality of privatized services, suggesting that privatization involves some tradeoff between costs and quality. ...

Factors associated with institutional delivery service utilization in Ethiopia

BACKGROUND Most obstetric complications occur unpredictably during the time of delivery, but they can be prevented with proper medical care in the health facilities. Despite the Ethiopian government's efforts to expand health service facilities and promote health institution-based delivery service in the country, an estimated 85% of births still take place at home. OBJECTIVE The review was co...

Can Bottom-Up Institutional Reform Improve Service Delivery?

Managing Non-Functional Properties of Inter-enterprise Business Service Delivery

In inter-enterprise business service collaborations management of nonfunctional properties has become a fundamental issue, as business management and computing infrastructures are expected to align more closely. Already, serviceoriented computing emphasizes dynamic binding between the functional elements participating in service collaborations and late encapsulation of properties on them. In su...