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The privatization decision : do public managers make a difference?

By: SLYKE, David M. Van; HAMOONDS, Charles A.
Material type: materialTypeLabelArticlePublisher: Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, June 2003Subject(s): Public Management; Privatization: Agency Theory: Policy ImplementationThe American Review of Public Administration 33, 2, p. 146-163Abstract: In this article, the political environment of privatization and its impacts on public management are examined in the context of the privatization of a state park in Georgia. The study specifically focuses on the actions of public managers in the privatization formulation and implementation stage.Public management capacity actually increased as a result of privatization. This is an outcome quite different from those reported by public management studies of other privatized services. Applyong a principal-agent framework, this study yelded several lessons that may strengthen public manager´s capacity to act as "smart buyers" of goods and services and to enforce accountability when managing contractual relationships. This study links theory to practice using a case study that allows a careful examination of the strategic responses of public managers confronted by largely political, as opposed to economic, pressures to privatize an already sucessful state park.
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In this article, the political environment of privatization and its impacts on public management are examined in the context of the privatization of a state park in Georgia. The study specifically focuses on the actions of public managers in the privatization formulation and implementation stage.Public management capacity actually increased as a result of privatization. This is an outcome quite different from those reported by public management studies of other privatized services. Applyong a principal-agent framework, this study yelded several lessons that may strengthen public manager´s capacity to act as "smart buyers" of goods and services and to enforce accountability when managing contractual relationships. This study links theory to practice using a case study that allows a careful examination of the strategic responses of public managers confronted by largely political, as opposed to economic, pressures to privatize an already sucessful state park.

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