Problems with contracting out government services: Lessons from orderly services at SCGH

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 917-929

  Boardman, Anthony E ^a   Hewitt, Erica Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTION; HOSPITAL SECTOR; SERVICE PROVISION; TRANSACTION COST;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; WORLD;

EID: 11144253631     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dth034     Document Type: Article

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