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100	1		_aREEVES, Eoin _934033
245	1	0	_aThe Practice of contracting in public private partnerships : _btransaction costs and relational contracting in the irish schools sector
260			_aMalden, MA : _bWiley-Blackwell, _cDecember 2008
520	3		_aThis paper explores the practice of contracting in public private partnerships (PPP). Focusing on the first Irish PPP to provide secondary schools, it draws on perspectives from transaction cost economics and socio-legal theory. It finds that the ex ante contractual setting was undermined by pushing forward with the PPP before conducting an adequate level of project appraisal. It explores the experiences of key stakeholders in the ex post contracting stage and concludes that the conduct of contracting practice was not characterized by the shift to relational contracting expected under PPP. Whereas this approach to contractual governance did not hinder the development of broadly trusting relations between the client and contractor, this was not manifest in terms of relations between the contractor and schools. A significant degree of conflict was evident in some schools-contractor relations, something which can be attributed to sources of transaction costs, including incomplete information, bounded rationality and uncertainty
773	0	8	_tPublic administration : an international quarterly _g86, 4, p. 969-986 _dMalden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, December 2008 _xISSN 00333298 _w
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998			_a20090121 _b1854^b _cTiago
999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c27978 _d27978
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