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9780719099526: What a waste: Outsourcing and how it goes wrong (Manchester Capitalism)
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ISBN 10: 0719099528 ISBN 13: 9780719099526
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

Documents how outsourcing has penetrated every part of the public sector, and balances critique with practical suggestions for policy reform

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Andrew Bowman is a member of the Centre for Research on Socio Cultural Change Ismail Ertürk is a Senior Lecturer at Manchester Business School and a member of CRESC Peter Folkman is Honorary Professor at Manchester Business School and a member of CRESC Julie Froud is Professor of Financial Innovation at Manchester Business School and a member of CRESC Colin Haslam is Professor in Accounting/Finance at Queen Mary, University of London Sukhdev Johal is Chair in Accounting & Strategy at Queen Mary University of London Adam Leaver is Senior Lecturer in Business Analysis at Manchester Business School and a member of CRESC Michael Moran is Professor of Government at Manchester Business School and a member of CRESC Nick Tsitsianis is Senior Lecturer in Accounting at Queen Mary University of London Karel Williams is Professor of Accounting and Political Economy at Manchester Business School and a Director of CRESC

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Outsourcing – contracting out public services to private business interests – is an unacknowledged revolution in the British economy. The outsourcing revolution has happened quietly but is creating powerful new corporate interests, transforming the organisation of government at all levels, and simultaneously enriching a new business elite and creating numerous fiascos in the delivery of public services.

What links the brutal treatment of asylum seeking detainees, the disciplining of welfare benefit claimants, the huge profits effortlessly earned by the privatised rail companies, and the fiasco of the management of security at the 2012 Olympics? In a word: outsourcing.

What a waste documents how outsourcing has penetrated every part of the public sector. It argues that the many service delivery fiascos perpetrated by the outsourcers are not simply the product of individual incompetence, nor the product of the inability of public authorities to write failsafe contracts. Fiascos and profiteering are inherent to the operation of the giant outsourcing conglomerates which have become our new governing institutions. The high returns from mundane contracts do not produce stable firms because the conglomerate’s constant need to expand drives them into acquisition and bidding for contracts in areas beyond their competence, leading to recurrent failures.

This book, by the renowned research team at the Centre for Research on Socio Cultural Change in Manchester, is the first to combine ‘follow the money’ research with accessibility for the engaged citizen, and the first to balance critique with practical suggestions for policy reform.

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Outsourcing contracting out public services to private business interests is an unacknowledged revolution in the British economy. The outsourcing revolution has happened quietly but is creating powerful new corporate interests, transforming the organisation of government at all levels, and simultaneously enriching a new business elite and creating numerous fiascos in the delivery of public services. What links the brutal treatment of asylum seeking detainees, the disciplining of welfare benefit claimants, the huge profits effortlessly earned by the privatised rail companies, and the fiasco of the management of security at the 2012 Olympics? In a word: outsourcing. What a waste documents how outsourcing has penetrated every part of the public sector. It argues that the many service delivery fiascos perpetrated by the outsourcers are not simply the product of individual incompetence, nor the product of the inability of public authorities to write failsafe contracts. Fiascos and profiteering are inherent to the operation of the giant outsourcing conglomerates which have become our new governing institutions. The high returns from mundane contracts do not produce stable firms because the conglomerate s constant need to expand drives them into acquisition and bidding for contracts in areas beyond their competence, leading to recurrent failures. This book, by the renowned research team at the Centre for Research on Socio Cultural Change in Manchester, is the first to combine follow the money research with accessibility for the engaged citizen, and the first to balance critique with practical suggestions for policy reform.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0719099528
ISBN 13 
9780719099526
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
120
Herausgeber
Bowman Andrew, Ertürk Ismail, Folkman Peter
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