Peas in a Pod: Are Efficient Municipalities also Financially Sustainable?

Title
Peas in a Pod: Are Efficient Municipalities also Financially Sustainable?
Publication Date
2016
Author(s)
Drew, Joseph
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3579-5758
Email: jdrew2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:jdrew2
Dollery, Brian E
Kortt, Michael A
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia
Place of publication
Australia
DOI
10.1111/auar.12098
UNE publication id
une:19401
Abstract
The proposition that changes in organisational structure can have decisive and predictable effects on organisational performance can be traced back to the pioneering efforts of Bain (1951) in his analysis of industrial production in market economies. These insights led to the emergence of industrial organisation (IO) as a separate field of inquiry with its characteristic structure-conduct-performance (SCP) analytical framework. In essence, the SCP model predicts that the structure of an industry influences its conduct, which in turn affects its performance. Over time, the application of the SCP paradigm has been extended far beyond the realm of private profit-seeking firms in manufacturing and other industries to not-for-profit organisations such as nursing homes (Nyman 1991) and hospitals (Lynk 1995), as well as the public sector, including local government (Brueckner 1982).
Link
Citation
Australian Accounting Review, 26(2), p. 122-131
ISSN
1835-2561
1035-6908
Start page
122
End page
131

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