Outsourcing as management strategy in local public services

Resumo

As a contribution to the academic debate on the use of outsourcing as a formula for the provision of local public services, this article aims to highlight political and institutional factors. The article firstly provides a literature review on the main arguments related to outsourcing, providing then empirical elements as result of a cross-sectional study based on data from all the municipalities with over 5,000 inhabitants in Catalonia, a Spanish Autonomous Community. In order to study the effects of political-institutional variables of local governments when outsourcing public services, the study determined a typology of municipalities by analyzing the main elements a set of variables and conducting a cluster analysis. After that, an analysis of variance was conducted to identify differences in the percentage of outsourcing among types of municipalities. The results show the relevance of political-institutional factors in the selection of the formula for service provision and allow identifying three strategies that propose outsourcing as a mechanism of flexibility in public management.

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Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

2017

Instituição

Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas da Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV EBAPE)

Fonte

Revista de Administração Pública

Idioma

Espanhol

Acesso

Não informado

DOI

10.1590/0034-7612156256

Identificador

oai:ojs.periodicos.fgv.br:article/71176

Licença

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Temas

Gestão PúblicaGestão Municipal

Palavras-chave

public serviceslocal administrationoutsourcingpublic management strategiesservicios públicosadministración localexternalizaciónestrategias de gestión públicaserviços públicosadministração localexternalizaçãoestratégias de gestão pública