New control modes and emergent organizational forms: Private-public contracting in public administration

Willmott, Hugh ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1321-7041, Grimshaw, Damian and Vincent, Steven 2001. New control modes and emergent organizational forms: Private-public contracting in public administration. Administrative Theory and Praxis 23 (3) , pp. 407-430.

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Abstract

This paper considers private-public partnerships as a central feature of efforts to reinvent government and the delivery of public services in the UK. Specifically, it examines the contracting out of services by a major government department and a National Health Service hospital. Hoggett's (1996) discussion of new modes of control in the provision of public services is mobilised to illuminate dynamics and lines of tension where services are contracted out to the private sector. Critical awareness of these dynamics and tensions, it is concluded, should be directed to issues of accountability that tend to be displaced by a focus upon changes in the management and delivery of public services.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Publisher:	ME Sharpe
ISSN:	1084-1806
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2022 10:05
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/43092

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