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Power and Purchasing: Why Strategic Purchasing Fails

SCOTT L. GREER, KATARZYNA KLASA, EWOUT VAN GINNEKEN

The Milbank Quarterly > 98 > 3 > 975 - 1020

Context Strategic purchasing of health care has been a popular policy idea around the world for decades, with advocates claiming that it can lead to improved quality, patient satisfaction, efficiency, accountability, and even population health. In this article, we report the results of an inquiry into the implementation and effects of strategic purchasing. Methods We conducted three in‐depth...

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Supplemental home care and topping‐up: A shift from service universalism towards a new and privatised public service model?

Ulf Hjelmar, Tine Rostgaard

International Journal of Social Welfare > 29 > 2 > 118 - 128

How does a public service model based on service universalism react to the introduction of market principles of topping up? In a recent so‐called Free Municipality Scheme (an experimental scheme that allowed for greater operational autonomy locally in an effort to reduce state bureaucracy), a number of Danish municipalities were for the first time ever allowed to compete with for‐profit providers...

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Building capacity in indigenous governance: Comparing the Australian and American experiences

Burke A. Hendrix, Danielle Delaney, Richard C. Witmer, Mark Moran, more

Australian Journal of Public Administration > 79 > 1 > 26 - 40

This paper compares key aspects of governance structures for Indigenous populations in the United States and Australia. The paper focuses on policy coordination and administration, in particular the nodes of decision‐making in the two countries in relation to government contracting and accountability. The U.S. approach to funding Indigenous organizations stems from the 1975 Indian Self‐Determination...

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Contracting for vendor‐managed inventory with a time‐dependent stockout penalty

Jun‐Yeon Lee, Gordon Johnson

International Transactions in Operational Research > 27 > 3 > 1573 - 1599

We examine vendor‐managed inventory contracts in a (Q, r) inventory system between a supplier and a retailer, in which a stockout penalty is charged to the supplier based on the length of the time period during which stockouts occur at the retailer. Linear and quadratic forms of the time‐dependent stockout penalty are considered. For the deterministic demand case, we find that the quadratic form of...

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Implementing Government Policy in Supply Chains: An International Coproduction Study of Public Procurement

Christine Harland, Jan Telgen, Guy Callender, Rick Grimm, more

Journal of Supply Chain Management > 55 > 2 > 6 - 25

Public procurement is the commercial arm of governments, contracting for goods, and services to feed public sector service provision. However, mainstream operations and supply chain management journals have published little on supply chains to governments, public procurement, and the significance of engaging small businesses in government supply chains. Policy feedback theory and thirteen coproduced...

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Service Outsourcing: Capacity, Quality and Correlated Costs

Tianjun Feng, Z. Justin Ren, Fuqiang Zhang

Production and Operations Management > 28 > 3 > 682 - 699

This paper studies how to design service outsourcing contracts to ensure fast, quality services from an independent service provider. The outsourcer does not have perfect information about the service provider’s capacity cost (i.e., cost of providing fast service) and quality cost (i.e., cost of achieving a high quality level). Moreover, the two unknown costs may be positively, or negatively, correlated...

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Collaborating to manage performance trade‐offs: How fire departments preserve life and save property

Jay R. Horwitz, Anita M. McGahan

Strategic Management Journal > 40 > 3 > 408 - 431

Research Summary We examine how formal collaboration allows organizations to resolve performance trade‐offs that cannot be resolved informally. The theory is tested on U.S. fire departments, which pursue goals that sometimes conflict: reducing casualties and saving property. By relying on intrinsic motivation, informal collaboration reduces casualties and saves some property above what departments...

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It is a Sweetheart of a Deal: Political Connections and Corporate‐Federal Contracting

Stephen P. Ferris, Reza Houston, David Javakhadze

Financial Review > 54 > 1 > 57 - 84

We examine whether political connections measured by political contributions influence the choice of terms included in government contracts awarded to firms. We construct an index of four “sweetheart” contract terms and find that firms making larger political contributions more frequently have these favorable terms included in their contracts. We also find that political contributions have explanatory...

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Impact evaluation of contracting primary health care services in urban Bangladesh

Manuel Leonard F. Albis, Subrata K. Bhadra, Brian Chin

BMC Health Services Research > 2019 > 19 > 1 > 1-12

Background The Urban Primary Health Care Project (UPHCP) was implemented by the Government of Bangladesh in response to rapid urbanization and growing inequalities in access to and quality of primary health care. The goal of the project was to improve health status of the urban poor living in city corporations and municipalities through the provision of health care services by NGOs that are contracted...

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Moving towards universal health coverage: engaging non-state providers

Zubin Cyrus Shroff, Krishna Dipankar Rao, Sara Bennett, Ligia Paina, more

International Journal for Equity in Health > 2018 > 17 > 1 > 1-6

This editorial provides an overview of the special issue “Moving towards UHC: engaging non-state providers”. It begins by describing the rationale underlying the Alliance’s choice of a research program addressing issues of non-state providers and briefly discusses the research process this entailed. This is followed by a summary of the findings and key messages of each of the eight articles included...

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Contracting non-state providers for universal health coverage: learnings from Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe

Krishna D. Rao, Ligia Paina, Marie-Gloriose Ingabire, Zubin C. Shroff

International Journal for Equity in Health > 2018 > 17 > 1 > 1-9

Background Formal engagement with non-state providers (NSP) is an important strategy in many low-and-middle-income countries for extending coverage of publicly financed health services. The series of country studies reviewed in this paper - from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda – provide a unique opportunity to understand the dynamics of NSP...

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Emergence of three general practitioner contracting-in models in South Africa: a qualitative multi-case study

Linda Mureithi, James Michael Burnett, Adam Bertscher, René English

International Journal for Equity in Health > 2018 > 17 > 1 > 1-18

Background The general practitioner contracting initiative (GPCI) is a health systems strengthening initiative piloted in the first phase of national health insurance (NHI) implementation in South Africa as it progresses towards universal health coverage (UHC). GPCI aimed to address the shortage of doctors in the public sector by contracting-in private sector general practitioners (GPs) to render...

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Trustworthiness Change and Relationship Continuity after Contract Breach in Financial Supply Chains

Ha Ta, Terry L. Esper, Kenneth Ford, Sebastian Garcia‐Dastuge

Journal of Supply Chain Management > 54 > 4 > 42 - 61

The management of financial flows in the supply chain is an integral part of effective supply chain management and is an emerging research area. A breach in the relationships between firms and financial providers may not only affect the financial health of the focal firms, but also disrupt the financial stability of their supply chains. Building on life‐cycle theory, this research examines the critical...

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Service Coordination by Public Sector Managers in a Human Service Contracting Environment

Bowen McBeath, Emmeline Chuang, Sarah Carnochan, Michael J. Austin, more

Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services... > 2019 > 46 > 2 > 115-127

Despite emerging evidence of contracting for evidence-based practices (EBP), little research has studied how managers lead contract-based human service delivery. A 2015 survey of 193 managers from five San Francisco Bay Area county human service departments examined the relationship between contract-based service coordination (i.e., structuring cross-sector services, coordinating client referrals...

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Social service purchasing in China: Rationale, features, and risks

Natasha Cortis, Qian Fang, Zhenfang Dou

Asian Social Work and Policy Review > 12 > 3 > 200 - 208

As part of a broader program of market reform, China's local governments are progressing an agenda of purchasing child welfare and other social services from the nongovernment sector, primarily to expand capacity and address vast unmet need. This paper draws on current research evidence to explore the approaches to purchasing emerging in China, examining the rationale for purchasing and models of...

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Renegotiation in Public–Private Partnerships: An Incentive Mechanism Approach

Julio Cezar Russo, Marco Antonio Guimarães Dias, André Barreira da Silva Rocha, Fernando Luiz Cyrino Oliveira

Group Decision and Negotiation > 2018 > 27 > 6 > 949-979

Game theory is an important analytical tool for measuring problems caused by behaviors that deviate from contractual ethics. However, the PPP literature still does little to explore this research topic. This paper analyzes and improves the equilibrium conditions of a renegotiation model of PPPs by introducing the asymmetry of information in the contract. To achieve this goal, the Mechanism Design...

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How are forest owners' objectives and social networks related to successful conservation?

Annukka Vainio, Riikka Paloniemi, Teppo Hujala

Journal of Rural Studies > 2018 > 62 > C > 21-28

In sustainable rural development, national and international policies are interpreted and implemented through local networks and involvement of local actors with various backgrounds, needs and objectives. We explored how forest owners' land management and biodiversity conservation objectives, as well as social capital embedded in their social networks were related to success in nature conservation,...

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An analysis of contract form for supply chains with quality improvement

Xinghao Yan*

International Transactions in Operational Research > 25 > 6 > 1879 - 1906

This study examines different contract forms for the supply chain with quality improvement decision and retailer price decision. We consider three types of quality improvement: cost consuming, cost identical, and cost saving, which correspond to the cases in which quality improvement leads to an increment, no change, and a decrease in production cost, respectively. We compare the performance of two...

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Marketisation policies in different contexts: Consequences for home‐care workers in Germany, Japan and Sweden

Hildegard Theobald, Marta Szebehely, Yayoi Saito, Nobu Ishiguro

International Journal of Social Welfare > 27 > 3 > 215 - 225

Market‐oriented restructurings of long‐term care policies contribute significantly to the aggravation of care workers’ situations. This article focuses on the effects of broader long‐term care policy developments on market‐oriented reforms. Germany, Japan and Sweden are three countries that have introduced market‐oriented reforms into home‐based care provision embedded in distinct long‐term care policy...

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Internal contracting of health services in Cambodia: drivers for change and lessons learned after a decade of external contracting

Sreytouch Vong, Joanna Raven, David Newlands

BMC Health Services Research > 2018 > 18 > 1 > 1-13

Background Since the late 1990s, contracting has been employed in Cambodia in an attempt to accelerate rural health system recovery and improve health service delivery. Special Operating Agencies (SOA), a form of ‘internal contracting’, was introduced into selected districts by the Cambodia Ministry of Health in 2009. This study investigates how the SOA model was implemented and identifies effects...

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Power and Purchasing: Why Strategic Purchasing Fails

Supplemental home care and topping‐up: A shift from service universalism towards a new and privatised public service model?

Building capacity in indigenous governance: Comparing the Australian and American experiences

Contracting for vendor‐managed inventory with a time‐dependent stockout penalty

Implementing Government Policy in Supply Chains: An International Coproduction Study of Public Procurement

Service Outsourcing: Capacity, Quality and Correlated Costs

Collaborating to manage performance trade‐offs: How fire departments preserve life and save property

It is a Sweetheart of a Deal: Political Connections and Corporate‐Federal Contracting

Impact evaluation of contracting primary health care services in urban Bangladesh

Moving towards universal health coverage: engaging non-state providers

Contracting non-state providers for universal health coverage: learnings from Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe

Emergence of three general practitioner contracting-in models in South Africa: a qualitative multi-case study

Trustworthiness Change and Relationship Continuity after Contract Breach in Financial Supply Chains

Service Coordination by Public Sector Managers in a Human Service Contracting Environment

Social service purchasing in China: Rationale, features, and risks

Renegotiation in Public–Private Partnerships: An Incentive Mechanism Approach

How are forest owners' objectives and social networks related to successful conservation?

An analysis of contract form for supply chains with quality improvement

Marketisation policies in different contexts: Consequences for home‐care workers in Germany, Japan and Sweden

Internal contracting of health services in Cambodia: drivers for change and lessons learned after a decade of external contracting

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