Alonso, José M. and Andrews, Rhys ![]() ![]() |
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Abstract
The corporatization of local public services is an increasingly common public management reform worldwide. This study investigates whether a shift from in-house to not-for-profit corporatized service provision can result in improvements across multiple dimensions of performance. To do so, we examine the staggered adoption of Arms-Length Management Organizations (ALMOs) to provide social housing by a third of English local governments during the period 2000 to 2008. Utilizing a Differences-in-Differences (DiD) with Multiple Time Periods (MTP) approach, we find that corporatized social housing outperformed in-house provision on service quality, citizen satisfaction, and environmental sustainability, with little evidence of worse achievements on other performance dimensions. Event history analysis suggests performance benefits emerged around 2 years after corporatization occurred. Our study therefore implies that not-for-profit corporatization is potentially an effective strategy for improving local public service performance.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Published Online |
Status: | In Press |
Schools: | Schools > Business (Including Economics) |
Publisher: | Wiley |
ISSN: | 0276-8739 |
Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 1 December 2024 |
Date of Acceptance: | 1 December 2024 |
Last Modified: | 17 Mar 2025 11:21 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/174429 |
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