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The ins and outs of outsourcing and insourcing: what have we learnt from the past 30 years?

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This paper explores recent experience with outsourcing of public services. It highlights how approaches to outsourcing have evolved during the past 30 years, moving through phases of competitive tendering, partnership working, strategic commissioning, prime contracting and, more recently, insourcing. The paper finishes with 10 lessons for commissioners and service providers which can be drawn from these experiences.

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  • Tony Bovaird, 2016. "The ins and outs of outsourcing and insourcing: what have we learnt from the past 30 years?," Public Money & Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(1), pages 67-74, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:pubmmg:v:36:y:2016:i:1:p:67-74
    DOI: 10.1080/09540962.2015.1093298
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    1. Pat Barrett AO, 2016. "New development: Financial reforms played in two octaves— yet again?," Public Money & Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(4), pages 307-312, May.
    2. Germà Bel & Thomas Elston, 2022. ""When the Time is Right: Testing for Dynamic Effects in Collaborative Performance"," IREA Working Papers 202212, University of Barcelona, Research Institute of Applied Economics, revised Jul 2022.

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