NEITHER PUBLIC NOR PRIVATE:
MIXED FORMS OF SERVICE DELIVERY AROUND THE GLOBE
THURSDAY, May 17th
12:45 pm-1:00 pm: Welcoming address: Germà Bel (Universitat de Barcelona), Trevor Brown (Ohio State University) and Mildred Warner (Cornell University).
1:00 pm- 2:45 pm
1. CONCEPTUAL ISSUES
CHAIR: Judith C. Clifton (Universidad de Cantabria)
Philip Marcel Karré (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences) – Conceptualizing hybrid organizations. A public administrations approach
Eoin Reeves and Gerald O'Nolan (both at University of Limerick) - Inter-Sectoral Differences in Procuring PPPs: Perspectives from Institutional Economics
Matti Siemiatycki (University of Toronto) - The Theory and Practice of Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships Revisited
Hellmut Wollmann (Humboldt University, Berlin) – Provision of Public Services: toward a comeback of the local government-based delivery?
DISCUSSANTS:
Judith C. Clifton (Universidad de Cantabria): Karré; Wollman
Amanda R. Girth (Ohio State University): Reeves and O’Nolan; Siemiaticky
Coffee Break: 2:45-3:15
3:15 pm- 4:30 pm
2. PUBLIC VALUES
CHAIR: Angel Saz (ESADE)
Anne-Marie Reynaers (VU University Amsterdam) – Public-private partnerships and safeguarding of public values: results from a multiple case study in the Netherlands
Barbara Romzek (University of Kansas), Kelly LeRoux (University of Illinois at Chicago), Jocelyn Johnston (American University), Robin Kempf (University of Kansas), Jaclyn Schede Piatak (American University) – Hierarchical Differences within Collaborative Service Delivery Networks: The Role of Street-Level Workers in Shaping Informal Accountability
Gilad L. Rosner (University of Nottingham) – E-Government Trust Frameworks in the United States
DISCUSSANTS:
Angel Saz (ESADE): Reynaers
Matthew Potoski (University of California, Santa Barbara): Romzek et al; Rosner
4:30 pm- 6:15 pm
3. GOVERNANCE IN THE WATER SECTOR
CHAIR: Joan Calzada (Universitat de Barcelona)
Gabriella D’Amore (Università degli Studi di Napoli "Parthenope") – Alternative water governance arrangements and performances: An analysis of Italian water companies
Alberto Asquer (Università degli Studi di Cagliari) – Explaining Partial Privatisation: The Emergence of Mixed Ownership Water Firms in Italy (1990s-2000s)
Joan Calzada (Universitat de Barcelona) and Susana Iranzo (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)– Neither Public nor Private: The Effects of Cooperatives in Water Provision on Child Health in Peru.
James H. Spencer (University of Hawai'i at Manoa) – Beyond Privatization: Urbanization and community Efforts to Secure Clean Water in Southeast Asia
DISCUSSANTS:
Rui Cunha Marques (Technical University of Lisbon): D’Amore; Asquer
Carlos Gutiérrez-Hita (Universitas Miguel Hernández): Calzada and Iranzo; Spencer
8:30 pm: CONFERENCE DINNER.
FRIDAY, May 18th (OPTION A)
9:00am-10:45am
4. PPPs –
CHAIR: David van Slyke (Syracuse University)
R. Richard Geddes and Benjamin L. Wagner (both at Cornell University) Why do U.S. States Adopt Public-Private Partnership Enabling Legislation?
Amanda R. Girth (The Ohio State University)–The Partnership Decision: Examining Municipal Wireless Broadband Networks in the U.S.
Miguel Gouveia and Pedro Raposo (both at Universidade Católica Portuguesa) – Public Sector Comparator Hospitals Portugal
Rui Cunha Marques (Technical University of Lisbon) Can management contracts avoid the PPP renegotiations? Lessons from the water and waste sectors
DISCUSSANTS:
David van Slyke (Syracuse University): Geddes and Wagner; Girth
Matti Siemiatycki (University of Toronto); Gouveia and Raposo; Marques
10:45-11:15: Coffee-Break
11:15am-13:00pm
5. MIXED CONTRACTING – MIXED OWNERSHIP
CHAIR: Jocelyn M. Johnston (American University)
Daniel Albalate, Germà Bel and Xavier Fageda (all at Universitat de Barcelona): Beyond pure public and pure private management models: Mixed firms in the European Airport Industry
Trevor Brown (The Ohio State University), Matthew Potoski (University of California, Santa Barbara) and David van Slyke (Syracuse University): The Impact of Values and Service Characteristics and Market on the Use of Joint Service Delivery in the United States
Elbert Dijkgraaf (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Raymond Gradus (VU University Amsterdam) , and Mattheus Wassenaar (VU University Amsterdam)– Understanding mixed forms of refuse collection, privatisation and its reverse in the Netherlands
Mildred Warner (Cornell University) and Amir Hefetz (University of Haifa) – Concurrent Sourcing in the Public Sector: Contracting and Agent Strategies to Manage Risk
DISCUSSANTS:
Jocelyn M. Johnston (American University): Brown et al; Warner and Hefetz.
Eoin Reeves (University of Limerick): Albalate et al; Dijkgraaf et al.
13:00pm-14:00pm
ROUND TABLE: PPPs: OPPORTUNITIES AND RISKS
Chair CHAIR: Martí Parellada (XREAP)
Judith Clifton (Universidad de Cantabria), Ricard Font (Autonomous Government of Catalonia), Josep Lluís Giménez (Abertis), Steve Kelman (Harvard University).
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