scholarly journals Power asymmetry in dyad between a private and a public entity - the hold-up phenomenon

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-94
Author(s):  
Sérgio Almeida Migowski ◽  
Cláudia de Souza Libânio
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Transaction Cost ◽  
The Other ◽  
Transaction Cost Theory ◽  
The Public ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Public Resources ◽  
Organizational Relations ◽  
Cooperation Relationship ◽  
Public Entity

This study aimed to analyze an inter-organizational relation of a dyad of the healthcare area, one being public and the other private. In light of the Transaction Cost Theory and Inter-organizational Relations, establishing the cooperation relationship was necessary to optimize public resources, besides the specificity of the transacted asset, which was health care in emergency situations. Transparency in the negotiations to establish a formal contract, however, proved to be insufficient to solve conflicts that were not predicted, as well as the suspension of payment by the public agent due to the inability to manage the budget. 

Health care development: integrating transaction cost theory with social support theory

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 334-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Nick Hajli ◽  
Mohana Shanmugam ◽  
Ali Hajli ◽  
Amir Hossein Khani ◽  
Yichuan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Transaction Cost ◽  
Transaction Cost Theory ◽  
Support Theory ◽  
Care Development

scholarly journals Legal Measures Undertaken by Public Authorities in Poland for Prevention and Combating COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Mełgieś
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Health Safety ◽  
The Public ◽  
Emergency Situations

The state is a special purpose organization and the directions of its activities are determined by public tasks. One of them is to ensure an efficient health care system, also effective in emergency situations such as those caused by an infectious disease pandemic COVID-19. In particular, legal instruments are used to create it, selected by the rulers within the limits set by law, including the applicable international standards, at the discretion of local governing authorities. The whole system is completed with organizational, medical and finally financial solutions. However, it is due to the fact that public authorities move around in the public space, due to the legality of their operation, that the legal instruments used are of significant importance for the assessment of the effectiveness of the performance of tasks related to combating infectious diseases, and thus ensuring health safety.

PROPOSALS FOR CHILD HEALTH CARE

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 312-314
Author(s):  
Alfred Yankauer
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Good Health ◽  
The Other ◽  
Child Health Care ◽  
American Health Care System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Population Analyses ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
American Health Care

In contrast to the prevailing tenor of less than a decade ago, few voices can be heard today reassuring the public or the professional that the American "health care system" is itself in good health. Having dealt with the aged through Medicare, the national spotlight now focuses on children who form the other major segment of our "poverty population." Analyses and complaints, proposals and programs flow forth at an accelerating pace. Two types of programs are discussed in the current issues of Pediatrics-one as a proposal presented to the American Academy of Pediatrics last fall, and the other as a report of work in progress.

Towards an Understanding of the Variety of Firms

2005 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judit Kapár
Keyword(s):  
Transaction Cost ◽  
Theory Of The Firm ◽  
Ideal Type ◽  
The Other ◽  
Governance Structures ◽  
Transaction Cost Theory ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
New Type ◽  
The One ◽  
Real Type

Currently more and more large, vertically integrated firms are being transformed into flatter organisations that encompass decentralised decision structures. The author argues that an understanding of this new type of firm, called market-like firm, is missing from the theory of the firm (transaction cost theory), for two reasons. On the one hand, the Williamsonian framework of governance structures does not explore the distinguishing mark of the firm, and, on the other hand, it cannot explain the variety of firms. To overcome these shortcomings, the author proposes the extension of the Williamsonian framework with the concept of “firm-ness” that is based on the distinction between ideal-type and real-type.

How Does Fiscal Decentralization Affect Fiscal and Governance-Related Performance?

2021 ◽  
pp. 409-426
Author(s):  
Mehmet Avcı ◽  
Hasan Alpay Karasoy
Keyword(s):  
Central Government ◽  
Fiscal Decentralization ◽  
Dynamic Panel Data ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Fiscal Performance ◽  
Public Resources ◽  
Government Reforms ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Effect

Fiscal decentralization, which is one of the most essential objectives of government reforms in recent decades, implies transferring of the fiscal authority from central government to lower-level government. The rationale of fiscal decentralization is to improve the allocation efficiency of public resources through matching public resources accurately to public needs. On the other hand, it ensures a closer relationship between individuals and governments, and thus governments are more responsive to the individual's needs. Therefore, fiscal decentralization can provide a more transparent and accountable decision-making process in the public sector. In all, it is expected that fiscal decentralization enhances fiscal performance and governance according to theory. In this sense, this study investigates the relationship between fiscal and governance-related performance empirically for 26 OECD countries over 1996-2017 by using dynamic panel data system GMM estimation. Findings confirm the view that fiscal decentralization has a positive effect on fiscal and governance-related performance.

scholarly journals The State of Children during Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-24
Author(s):  
Maryam Iftikhar ◽  
Komal Iftikhar
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Government ◽  
Witnessing Domestic Violence ◽  
Screen Use

Coronavirus and pandemics have led to drastic and unexpected changes in the whole world. It has affected people’s lives and their ways of living drastically. Although lockdowns and mobility restrictions were imposed to save lives, on the other hand, it put the lives of the underprivileged population at other risks too such as violence and abuse. This paper attempts to describe the situation of children during this epidemic of covid-19. Evidence and researches proved that emergency situations are significantly related to an increased level of violence, especially against children. A number of problems from which children suffered during pandemic and lockdown have been discussed such as excessive screen use, domestic child abuse, witnessing domestic violence, etc. Furthermore, this paper also suggests essential recommendations for not only the government but also for the public as they must corporate with the government in such high alert times.

scholarly journals Introduction Special Issue “Paradoxical orders: Parenting encounters, the welfare state, and difference in Europe”

Ethnography ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146613812091944
Author(s):  
Anouk de Koning ◽  
Mette-Louise Johansen ◽  
Milena Marchesi
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Family Care ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Welfare Programs ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Resources ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Welfare State

This special issue examines welfare programs as sites where Europe’s increasingly diverse societies are being shaped and negotiated. It zooms in on parenting as a central governmental domain where concerns about, and hopes for, the future of society intersect with notions of citizenship, family care, welfare, and deservingness of public resources. In this introduction to the special issue, we draw out three paradoxical orders that shape the encounters between migrant parents and welfare actors we have studied. One is concerned with the tension between the universal and difference, the other with the re-articulation of the public and the private, and a third with irreconcilable social and institutional demands. This helps us understand how Europe’s diverse societies are being shaped on the ground, beyond the often strongly racialized, nationalist rhetoric that has come to dominate public debates.

A Larger Role for the Private Sector in Financing UK Health Care: the Arguments and the Evidence

2001 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 685-704 ◽  
Author(s):  
CAROL PROPPER ◽  
KATHERINE GREEN
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public Care ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Finance ◽  
System A ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

This article examines whether an extension of private finance would improve either the efficiency or the equity of the UK health care system. A number of arguments for increasing the role of private finance that focus on the impact of private finance on the efficiency of the public sector are examined in conjunction with empirical evidence from a number of OECD countries. The conclusion is that the case for some extension of private finance is finely balanced. There is little evidence to show that increasing private finance would improve the efficiency of the NHS. On the other hand, the evidence suggests that it is unlikely that increasing private finance at the margin will alter the support for the NHS, and thus willingness of individuals to pay taxes for public care. In addition, if private finance is supplementary, increased finance will be progressive in terms of payments for health care.

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