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Contracting Incentives

Contracting Incentives is a formal mechanism within public sector management that structures rewards or penalties in contractual agreements to align the performance objectives of external providers with governmental goals, distinguishing it from broader motivational tools by its reliance on explicit, enforceable contractual terms tied to measurable outcomes.

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Governing the Hollow State

H. Brinton Milward, Keith G. Provan · Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory · 2000 · 1.2K citations · Full text

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Performance standards in incentive contracts

Kevin J. Murphy · Journal of Accounting and Economics · 2000 · 538 citations

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Reputation Effects and the Limits of Contracting: A Study of the Indian Software Industry*

Esther Duflo · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 2000 · 536 citations

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Contracting out by the public sector: theory, evidence, prospects

Simon Domberger · Oxford Review of Economic Policy · 1997 · 526 citations

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Investments, Holdup, and the Form of Market Contracts.

W. Bentley MacLeod, James M. Malcomson · Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford) · 1993 · 476 citations

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Authors

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  1. EI
    Elisabetta Iossa

    University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

    6 publications · 563 citations

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  2. EF
    Ernst Fehr

    University of Zurich, Switzerland

    6 publications · 1K citations

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  3. DM
    David Martimort

    Paris School of Economics, France

    5 publications · 562 citations

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  4. MM
    M. Motiar Rahman

    University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China

    4 publications · 250 citations

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  5. PR
    Patrick Rey

    Toulouse School of Economics, France

    4 publications · 98 citations

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Institutions

335

  1. Ifo Institute for Economic Research

    Munich, Germany

    12 h-index

    12 publications

    954 citations

  2. IZA - Institute of Labor Economics

    Bonn, Germany

    10 h-index

    10 publications

    875 citations

  3. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    9 h-index

    10 publications

    486 citations

  4. Centre for Economic Policy Research

    London, United Kingdom

    9 h-index

    11 publications

    416 citations

  5. University of Rome Tor Vergata

    Rome, Italy

    8 h-index

    8 publications

    621 citations

  6. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    8 h-index

    12 publications

    659 citations

  7. University of Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    7 h-index

    7 publications

    1.1K citations

  8. University of Hong Kong

    Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong

    7 h-index

    12 publications

    1K citations

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  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 34 publications · 1.8K citations

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  2. Management Science

    12 publications · 891 citations

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  3. The Journal of Law Economics and Organization

    LEO · 9 publications · 782 citations

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  4. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

    Repository · 8 publications · 538 citations

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  5. The Accounting Review

    6 publications · 671 citations

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