Complex Contracting
Management Challenges and Solutions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6358437 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Trevor L Brown (The Ohio State University), Matthew Potoski (0000-0003-2011-338X, University of California, Santa Barbara), David M Van Slyke (Syracuse University) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 739-747 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-19 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Public Administration Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-3352 • E-ISSN: 1540-6210 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/puar.12959 |
| OpenAlex | W2808794472 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
| References cited | 17 |
Governments at all levels buy mission‐critical goods and services whose attributes and performance requirements are hard to define and produce. Many governments—and the public managers who lead them—lack experience and knowledge about how to contract for complex products. The contract management counsel provided to public managers is thin. Missing is a conceptual managerial framework to guide purchasing the complex products that are often so critical to public organizations' core missions. Drawing on perspectives from across the social sciences, the framework presented in this article provides guidance on how managers can harness the upsides of complex contracting while avoiding its pitfalls. The framework helps identify conditions that increase the likelihood of positive outcomes for the purchasing government and the vendor—the win‐win. To illustrate the framework, the article provides examples of successful and failed acquisitions for complex products such as transportation projects, social service systems, and information technology systems
Business · Conceptual framework · Government (linguistics · Purchasing · Sociology · Vendor · Marketing · Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management · Public Procurement and Policy · Public-Private Partnership Projects
Managing third-party accountability in human services contracting
What triggers public-private partnership (PPP) renegotiations in the United States
Organizational risk perception in public agencies
Policy narratives and megaprojects
Is government escaping blame? the effect of contracting and victim attributes in a prisoner transportation experiment
Contractual acrobatics
Social impact bond- ing ? Evidence on interorganizational relationships in social impact bonds across the United Kingdom
Contracting Services for Response to Extreme Weather Events in Public Organizations
A tyranny of metrics vs. a tool for learning
The effects of contractual and relational governance on public‐private partnership sustainability
Political opportunism and transaction costs in contractual choice of public–private partnerships
Public–private partnerships
Engaging Citizens in Government Contracting
What Drives Adaptation? Evidence from Sea Level Rise Planning in the Southeastern United States
The Government of Jamaica’s electronic procurement system
Austerity, staff inadequacy, and contracting‐out social services
Does Contracting Achieve Better Performance for Democratic-Constitutional, Procedural Tasks? Evidence From the EEO Discrimination Complaint Process
Does Government Punish Nonprofits for High Administrative Costs in Contracting Decisions
Dilemma in Providing Human Services Under Transactional Contracting
Intra-Organizational Communication in Public Agencies
Political tournaments, government outsourcing, and unproductive infrastructure
Do Markets Shape Management? Experimental Evidence for the Effects of Competition on Contract Management
Invisible and indispensable
Governance and Accountability in Reshaping Public Services
Private organization’s moral behaviour and citizen support for public-private partnerships
Same product, different price
Public values and sector service delivery preferences
Social Public Purchasing
A Fistful of Data
Government as Network Catalyst
Relational Mechanisms in Complex Contracting
The interplay of discretion and complexity in public contracting and renegotiations
| Citations per year | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |