| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 268 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Public or Private?: The Conceptual Foundations -- 1.1 Public goods do not need public management -- 1.2 Do private motives undermine public gains? The cost-quality trade-off -- 1.3 Covenants without a sword -- 1.4 Government failure and public bads -- 1.5 Is privatization "just"? -- 1.6 From public goods to public values: the legitimacy of privatization -- 1.7 One issue, many arguments -- 2 The Effectiveness-Inclusion Framework -- 2.1 Effectiveness -- 2.2 Inclusion -- 2.3 The interplay between effectiveness and inclusion -- 2.4 When inclusion is a priority -- 2.5 Just comparisons -- 3 Public, Private, and Their Variations: A Comparative Analysis -- 3.1 The menu of public and private forms of delivery -- 3.2 Choosing between options: direct comparisons -- 3.3 A simplified decision tree -- 3.4 Perceived legitimacy constrains the choice of delivery forms -- 3.5 Can public and private organizations coexist -- and benefit from one another? -- 4 Privatization Needs Capable Governments -- 4.1 Good governments in poorly governed countries? -- 4.2 The dimensions of government capabilities -- 4.3 Government capabilities in public-private collaborations -- 4.4 Government capabilities as surge capacity: the case of COVID-19 -- 4.5 Many roads lead to Rome -- 4.6 The relevance of irrelevance -- 5 Completing the Contracts: Paying for Social Outcomes -- 5.1 The power (and weakness) of incentives -- 5.2 Do we need investors in public contracts? -- 5.3 A snapshot of outcome-based contracts -- 5.4 The seven deadly sins of measurement -- 5.5 Beyond incentives: the virtues of coordination -- 6 Private Investors in the Public Interest? -- 6.1 The impact of profits |
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6.2 What if financial sacrifice is required? -- 6.3 Irreconcilable differences -- 6.4 Impostors among us -- 6.5 The elusive impact -- 6.6 Can corporations save the Amazon rainforest? -- 6.7 The ultimate responsibility -- 7 Public Promotion of Private Capabilities -- 7.1 Industrial policy: the good, the bad, and the crucial -- 7.2 Do we need development banks? -- 7.3 Frugal policy -- 7.4 COVID-19, again: developing private surge capacity -- 7.5 Does public support crowd out private investment? -- 7.6 Knowing when to stop -- 8 A Roadmap to Privatization (and Its Alternatives) -- 8.1 A process of privatization -- 8.2 Nationalist privatization -- 8.3 When the public becomes private-like -- 8.4 The challenge of building government capabilities -- 8.5 Pitching privatization -- 8.6 The plural consensus -- Appendices -- Appendix 1 A simple model of private management with public supervision -- Appendix 2 Decomposing gains in effectiveness and inclusion -- Appendix 3 Factors affecting attitudes toward privatization -- Appendix 4 Improving measurement affects delivery performance -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
"Sergio G. Lazzarini is the Chafi Haddad Professor of Management at Insper in Brazil. He is the Director of Insper Metricis, a center dedicated to the study of impact management and measurement. Sergio has held visiting positions at Harvard University (2010, 2012), University of St Gallen (2009), HEC Paris (2014), Insead (2015), Brandeis (2016), Imperial College (2017), and the University of Utah (2019). His research has received several prizes including the Glueck Best Paper Award of the Strategic Management Division of the Academy of Management (2003), Best Presentation Prize of the Strategic Management Society Special Conference in Rio (2011), Best Paper Award of the Strategy Division (Cooperative Strategy Track) of the Academy of Management (2020) and the Jabuti Prize for the book Capitalism of Ties (2010). In 2014, he published the book Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond (Harvard University Press, with Aldo Musacchio)"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 21, 2022) |
| Subject |
Public-private sector cooperation.
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Privatization.
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Privatization -- Government policy
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Privatization
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior.
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Privatization.
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Privatization -- Government policy.
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Public-private sector cooperation.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021045497 |
| ISBN |
9781009024167 |
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1009024167 |
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9781009022071 |
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1009022075 |
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