Prices, contracts and motivations: Institutional arrangements in domiciliary care

Policy and Politics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 207-222

  Forder, Julien ^a   Knapp, Martin ^a   Hardy, Brian ^b   Kendall, Jeremy ^a   Matosevic, Tihana ^a   Ware, Patricia ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contracts; Home care; Institutional economics; Motivation

Indexed keywords

INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; WELFARE PROVISION; WELFARE REFORM;

EID: 1842637572     PISSN: 03055736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1332/030557304773558152     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Bartlett, W., Roberts, J. and Le Grand, J. (1998) 'The development of quasi-markets in the 1990s', in W. Bartlett, J. Roberts and J. Le Grand (eds) A revolution in social policy: Quasi-market reforms in the 1990s, Bristol: The Policy Press: 1-16.
2. Bresnahan, T. (1988) 'Empirical studies of industries with market power', in R. Schmalansee and R. Willig (eds) Handbook of industrial economics, Amsterdam: North Holland.
3. Buchanan, J. and Tollison, R. (eds) (1984) The theory of public choice II, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
4. Cullis, J. and Jones, P. (1987) Microeconomics and the public economy: A defence of Leviathan, Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
5. Davis, L. and North, D. (1971) Institutional change and American economic growth, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
6. Deci, E. and Ryan, R. (1985) Intrinsic motivation and self-determination in human behaviour, New York, NY: Plenum.
7. DETR (Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions) (1998) Modern local government: In touch with the people, London: DETR.
8. DiMaggio, P. and Powell, W.W. (1983) 'Institutional isomorphism', American Sociological Review, vol 48: 147-60.
9. DoH (Department of Health) (1998) Modernising social services: Promoting independence, improving protection, raising standards, Cm 4169, London: The Stationery Office.
10. DoH (1999) A new approach to social services performance, London: DoH.
11. Foley, P. (1999) 'Competition as public policy: a review of challenge funding', Public Administration, vol 77, no 4: 809-36.
12. Forder, J. (1997) 'Contracts and purchaser-provider relationships in community care', Journal of Health Economics, vol 16: 517-42.
13. Forder, J. (1999) 'Contingent contracts: the effects on care providers', Paper presented at Second World Conference of the International Health Economics Association, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 7 July.
14. Forder, J. (2000a) 'Mental health: market power and governance', Journal of Health Economics, vol 19, no 6: 877-905.
15. Forder, J. (2000b) The effects of contracts and motivations on domiciliary care prices, Discussion Paper 1609, London: PSSRU, London School of Economics and Political Science.
16. Forder, J., Knapp, M.R.J. and Wistow, G. (1996) 'Competition in the mixed economy of care', Journal of Social Policy, vol 25, no 2: 201-21.
17. Frey, B. (1997) Not just for the money: An economic theory of personal motivation, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
18. Glennerster, H. and Le Grand, J. (1995) 'The development of quasi-markets in welfare provision in the United Kingdom', International Journal of Health Services, vol 25, no 2: 203-18.
19. Granovetter, M. (1985) 'Economic action and social structure: the problem of embeddedness', American Journal of Sociology, vol 91, no 3: 481-510.
20. Hey, J. and Lambert, P. (1987) Surveys in the economics of uncertainty, Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
21. Hodgson, G. (1988) Economics and institutions: A manifesto for a modern institutional economics, Cambridge: Polity Press.
22. Hoyes, L. and Means, R. (1993) 'Quasi-markets and the reform of community care', in J. Le Grand and W. Bartlett (eds) Quasi-markets and social policy, Basingstoke: Macmillan.
23. Jones, P. and Cullis, J. (2000) '"Individual failure" and the analytics of social policy', Journal of Social Policy, vol 29, no 1: 73-93.
24. Kendall, J. (2000) The third sector and social care for older people in England: Towards an explanation of its contrasting contributions in residential, domiciliary and day care, Civil Society Working Paper 8, London: Centre for Civil Society, London School of Economics and Political Science.
25. Kendall, J. (2001) 'Of knights, knaves and merchants: the case of residential care for older people in England in the late 1990s', Social Policy and Administration, vol 35, no 4: 360-75.
26. Knapp, M.R.J., Forder, J. and Hardy, B. (2001) 'Commissioning for quality: ten years of social care markets in England', Journal of Social Policy, vol 30, no 2: 283-306.
27. Kreps, D. (1990) 'Corporate culture and economic theory', in J. Alt and K. Shepsle (eds) Perspectives on positive political economy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
28. Kreps, D. (1996) 'Markets and hierarchies and (mathematical) economic theory', Industrial and Corporate Change, vol 5, no 2: 561-95.
29. Le Grand, J. (1997) 'Knights, knaves or pawns'? Human behaviour and social policy', Journal of Social Policy, vol 26, no 2: 149-70.
30. Lewis, J. and Glennerster, H. (1996) Implementing the new community care, Buckingham: Open University Press.
31. Light, D. (1997) 'From managed competition to managed cooperation: theory and lessons from the British experience', The Millbank Quarterly, vol 75, no 3: 297-341.
32. Lyons, B. and Mehta, J. (1997) 'Contracts, opportunism and trust: self-interest and social orientation', Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol 21: 239-57.
33. McKenna, C. (1986) The economics of uncertainty, Brighton: Wheatsheaf.
34. Martin, S. (1999) 'Visions of best value: modernisation or just muddling through?', Public Money and Management, vol 19, no 4: 57-61.
35. Matosevic, T., Knapp, M.R.J., Kendall, J., Forder, J., Ware, P. and Hardy, B. (2001) Domiciliary care providers in the independent sector, London/Leeds: PSSRU, London School of Economics and Political Science/Nuffield Institute of Health, University of Leeds.
36. Milgrom, P. and Roberts, J. (1992) Economics, organization and management, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
37. Miller, G. (1992) Managerial dilemmas: The political economy of hierarchy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
38. Niskanan, W. (1971) Bureaucracy and representative government, Chicago, IL: Adline.
39. North, D. (1990) Institutions, institutional change and economic performance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
40. Perrow, C. (1990) 'Economic theories of organisation', in S. Zukin and P. DiMaggio (eds) Structure of capital: The social organisation of the economy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
41. Pindyck, R. and Rubenfeld, D. (1981) Econometric models and economic forecasts, New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
42. Rhodes, R.A.W. (1997) Understanding governance: Policy networks, governance, reflexivity and accountability, Buckingham: Open University Press.
43. Ridley, N. (1988) The local Right: Enabling not providing, Policy Study No 92, London: Centre for Policy Studies.
44. Rubinstein, A. (1998) Modeling bounded rationality, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
45. Sako, M. (1992) Prices, quality and trust: Inter-firm relations in Britain and Japan, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
46. Simon, H. (1957) Models of man: Social and rational, New York, NY: Wiley.
47. Varian, H. (1978) Microeconomic analysis, New York, NY: Norton.
48. Walsh, K. (1995) Public services and market mechanisms, Basingstoke: Macmillan.
49. Ware, P., Matosevic, T., Forder, J., Hardy, B., Kendall, J., Knapp, M.R.J. and Wistow, G. (2001) 'Movement and change: independent sector domiciliary care providers between 1995 and 1999', Health and Social Care in the Community, vol 9, no 6: 334-40.
50. Williamson, O. (1979) 'Transaction cost economics: the governance of contractual relations', Journal of Law and Economics, vol 22, no 2: 233-61.
51. Williamson, O. (1985) The economic institutions of capitalism, New York, NY: Free Press.
52. Williamson, O. (1986) Economic organisation: Firms, markets and policy control, Brighton: Wheatsheaf Books.
53. Williamson, O. (1994) 'Transaction cost economics and organization theory', in N. Smeltzer and R. Swedberg (eds) The handbook of economic sociology, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
54. Wistow, G., Knapp, M.R.J., Hardy, B. and Allen, C. (1994) Social care in a mixed economy, Buckingham: Open University Press.
55. Wistow, G., Knapp, M.R.J., Hardy, B., Forder, J., Kendall, J. and Manning, R. (1996) Social care markets: Progress and prospects, Buckingham: Open University Press.