Drivers of service delivery modes in Dutch local government: an analysis over time and across domains
| Published date | 01 September 2021 |
| Date | 01 September 2021 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0020852320968906 |
| Subject Matter | Special Issue: Re-municipalization of local public services: incidence, causes and prospectsGuest editors: Daniel Albalate, Germà Bel, Raymond Gradus and Eoin ReevesArticles |
Drivers of service delivery
modes in Dutch local
government: an analysis
over time and across
domains
Martijn Schoute
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Raymond Gradus
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tjerk Budding
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Abstract
This study investigates the influence of service, financial and political characteristics on
municipalities’choices of four service delivery modes in the Dutch local government
setting, thereby making a distinction between services in the physical and in the oper-
ational domain. It shows that, overall, use of inter-municipal cooperation and, to a lesser
extent, municipality-owned firms increased substantially from 2010 to 2018. For use of
private firms, we find remarkable differences. Whereas this use increased for the phys-
ical domain, it decreased for the operational domain. For both domains, we find that in-
house production decreased substantially. We also find that the influence of especially
transaction cost characteristics on the likelihood that municipalities choose a certain
institutional form differs between 2010 and 2018, as well as between the physical and
the operational domain.
Corresponding author:
Martijn Schoute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, School of Business and Economics, Department of Accounting,
De Boelelaan 1105, Room 7A-75, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Email: m.schoute@vu.nl
Article
International
Review of
Administrative
Sciences
International Review of Administrative
Sciences
2021, Vol. 87(3) 425–439
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