IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/rapaxx/v39y2017i1p39-50.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Forms and effects of shared services: an assessment of local government arrangements in Japan

Author

Listed:
  • Yu Noda

Abstract

Various forms of shared services are adopted by local governments throughout Japan, just as they are in many other countries. There are high hopes of their being efficient and effective means of service provision and resource management of considerable value to the localities in which they are established and operate. But are the hopes fulfilled, and what are the key factors in how the arrangements are structured, work and achieve results? These are important questions, which are addressed in this article with particular reference to the experience of partial service associations as one form of shared services in two prefectures in Japan. The findings reveal that such associations do not necessarily improve financial efficiency because of various transaction costs. These costs, along with other significant aspects of the arrangements, are certainly worthy of further comprehensive research and analysis.

Suggested Citation

  • Yu Noda, 2017. "Forms and effects of shared services: an assessment of local government arrangements in Japan," Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(1), pages 39-50, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rapaxx:v:39:y:2017:i:1:p:39-50
    DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2017.1290903
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23276665.2017.1290903
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/23276665.2017.1290903?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Hiroki Baba & Yasushi Asami, 2020. "Estimating the minimal efficient scale and the effect of intermunicipal cooperation on service provision areas for waste treatment in Japan," Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, Springer, vol. 4(1), pages 139-158, February.
    2. Jialei Ye & Luyi Yang & Ruwei Yun, 2022. "An Impact Evaluation of the Application of Sharing Products in Tourism Services," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(13), pages 1-23, June.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:rapaxx:v:39:y:2017:i:1:p:39-50. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/RAPA20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.