The Impact of Compulsory Competition on Public Sector Management: 'Competition Within the Field'
The Impact of Compulsory Competition on Public Sector Management: 'Competition Within the Field'
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强制竞争对公共部门管理的影响:“领域内的竞争”
DOI:
10.1177/095207679000500104
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发表时间:
1990
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
N. Flynn
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作者:
N. Flynn
While there has been a tradition of sealed tenders for contracts for public works from the nineteenth century, the post war period saw an expansion of the use of directly employed labour on building and road works. By the middle of the 1970s there were scandals involving cost overruns on several local authority housing schemes. In 1978 the Labour government proposed that local authority building departments should run trading accounts as a first step towards exposing costs and encouraging competition. The Local Government Planning and Land Act 1980 and the Local Government Act 1988 made competitive tendering compulsory in a range of services provided by manual workers and the management of leisure facilities. A consultation paper has suggested that a much wider range of services could be included. In the National Health Service, the