This paper identifies and discusses the problems associated with contracting out labor-intensive government services. It examines in detail the contracting out of the orderly service at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (SCGH) in Western Australia and its subsequent return to in-house delivery. When the orderly service was contracted out, the result was poor in terms of cost, quality and externalities. Subsequent return of the service to in-house provision reduced costs and improved quality. The problems that led to failure of contracting out and subsequent success of in-house provision can be explained in terms of transaction cost economics. Copyright 2004, Oxford University Press.
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Volume (Year): 13 (2004) Issue (Month): 6 (December) Pages: 917-929 Download reference. The following formats are available: HTML
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