Overcoming competitive disadvantages of public enterprises by Public-Private Partnerships and their financing models

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 393-411

  Hanss, Wilhelm Georg ^a  

^a The Municipal Distribution and Transport Corporation   (Germany)

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EID: 79959665062     PISSN: 13704788     EISSN: 14678292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8292.00175     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. Statistisches Bundesamt,Wiesbaden, 2 March 2000.
2. Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg, Arbeitskreis Volkswirt- schaftliche Gesamtrechnungen der Länder, Stuttgart, 17 February 2000.
3. The unemployment rate increased from 16.7% in 1998 to 18.8% in 1999. The number of those receiving income support grew from 8,846 in 1998 to 10,640 in 1999.(Arbeitsamt Arbeitsamtsbezirk, Leipzig).
4. See also VDV's 1998 statistics: Verband Deutscher Verkehrsunternehmen, ̈Köln 1999, Herausforderungen im OPNV, BOOZ ALLEN and HAMILTON,Wien/ Düsseldorf 1999.
5. See also W.G. Hanss, H. Lührmann, S.Menck, U.Siegel: Change Management und Unternehmenserfolg.Die Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe GmbH: Wettbewerbsfähig durch ein neues Führungs- und Steuerungssystem.
6. See also decision of the Düsseldorf provincial high court, case ref.: Verg. 3/99 on the case brought by Awista GmbH, a waste-processing and municipal cleaning company, in which the Düsseldorf Department of Works has a 74.9% share holding.The Düsseldorf provincial high court overturned the decision of the Vergabekammer Düsseldorf, which had banned Awista GmbH from operating outside the local area.It ruled that a municipal company may under certain conditions pursue activities outside the local area; its activities are not inevitably confined to its own district borders.