Efficiency of outsourcing in the public sector in the Czech Republic

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10.2991/iaw-sc.2013.25How to use a DOI?

Keywords

outsourcing; public sector; efficiency; Czech Republic

Abstract

Outsourcing internal services to private for-profit and non-profit firms is one of the most prevalent types of alternative service-delivering arrangements. The relevant literature proposes that outsourcing may, but need not, improve cost-effectiveness and the quality of service delivery. The efficiency of outsourcing is determined by policy and management capacities, resources and experience in public sector of specific country. This paper seeks to analyze the efficiency of outsourcing in the Czech public sector by using the multicriteria analysis (MBVI method, used to construct composite efficiency scores). The study uses a quantitative approach to investigate the research question and analyzes the originally collected survey data from own research. The results are slightly complicated – our analysis does not show one uniform trend, cannot answer if outsourcing is better solution as compared to internal production. However, such findings are in line with international experience, indicating that the success of outsourcing depends on many internal and external factors and cannot be universalised.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Juraj Nemec
AU  - Beata Mikusova Merickova
AU  - Sumpikova Marketa
PY  - 2013/10
DA  - 2013/10
TI  - Efficiency of outsourcing in the public sector in the Czech Republic
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 International Academic Workshop on Social Science
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 118
EP  - 121
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iaw-sc.2013.25
DO  - 10.2991/iaw-sc.2013.25
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