Background: Expanding the opportunities for for-profit nursing home care is a central theme
in the debate on the sustainable organization of the growing nursing home sector in Western …

One of the major policy trends in recent decades has been the privatization of social
services. This trend has also reached Sweden, a welfare state with health care and social …

The provision of public services by for-profit and non-profit organizations is widespread in
OECD countries, but the jury is still out on whether outsourcing has improved service quality …

Background Swedish nursing home care has undergone a transformation, where the
previous virtual public monopoly on providing such services has been replaced by a system …

Personalized care and market‐based approaches to public service provision have gained
prominence in a range of Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development …

In his theory about the role of nonprofit enterprise, Henry Hansmann suggested that
nonprofit status provides important information to consumers in low-information …

While public, non-profit, and for-profit organizations are all subject to government
regulations, little research examines how public and non-profit organizations respond to …

Change is sweeping the globe, and at the government level, operational changes are
prompting many public administrators to develop new management styles and ways of …

Accountability pressures have generated complex performance measurement regimes to
evaluate and improve public or publicly funded services. Performance management …

By working with business, public organisations are assumed to benefit from: a more
contestable procurement process; access to private sector entrepreneurialism and the …