| Publication type: | Book part |
| Type of review: | Editorial review |
| Title: | Corporatisation in Swiss local government |
| Authors: | Kaiser, Claire Steiner, Reto Machljankin, Jana |
| et. al: | No |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-031-09982-3_10 |
| Published in: | Corporatisation in local government : context, evidence and perspectives from 19 countries |
| Editors of the parent work: | Van Genugten, Marieke Voorn, Bart Andrews, Rhys Papenfuss, Ulf Torsteinsen, Harald |
| Page(s): | 221 |
| Pages to: | 242 |
| Issue Date: | 2023 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Cham |
| ISBN: | 978-3-031-09981-6 978-3-031-09982-3 |
| Language: | English |
| Subject (DDC): | 350: Public administration |
| Abstract: | In Switzerland, outsourcing local services such as water supply, sewage, and waste disposal to municipally owned corporations (MOCs) has a long tradition. While the provision of public services through departmental units is still the norm, there was a trend towards more corporatisation at the local tier of government between the 1990s and the 2010s in the aftermath of the New Public Management paradigm. In Swiss cities, which are small by European standards, an average of 825 employees worked in MOCs in 2017, a figure that is 78% higher than it was eight years earlier. Because Switzerland is a federal state, the Swiss cantons regulate MOCs in the cantonal legislation, so municipalities face different legal frameworks, and there is no uniform pattern. Almost all cantons have rules, however, on how municipalities can establish and structure MOCs. MOCs in Switzerland can be established under private (e.g. companies limited by shares) or public law (e.g. public corporations). Private law MOCs are most prevalent in larger cities. MOCs are mainly established to provide services in market-oriented, or at least customer-oriented, industries such as the energy sector and the traffic and transportation sector. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/27430 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | School of Management and Law |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Public Management (IVM) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen School of Management and Law |
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Kaiser, C., Steiner, R., & Machljankin, J. (2023). Corporatisation in Swiss local government. In M. Van Genugten, B. Voorn, R. Andrews, U. Papenfuss, & H. Torsteinsen (Eds.), Corporatisation in local government : context, evidence and perspectives from 19 countries (pp. 221–242). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09982-3_10
Kaiser, C., Steiner, R. and Machljankin, J. (2023) ‘Corporatisation in Swiss local government’, in M. Van Genugten et al. (eds) Corporatisation in local government : context, evidence and perspectives from 19 countries. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 221–242. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09982-3_10.
C. Kaiser, R. Steiner, and J. Machljankin, “Corporatisation in Swiss local government,” in Corporatisation in local government : context, evidence and perspectives from 19 countries, M. Van Genugten, B. Voorn, R. Andrews, U. Papenfuss, and H. Torsteinsen, Eds. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pp. 221–242. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-09982-3_10.
KAISER, Claire, Reto STEINER und Jana MACHLJANKIN, 2023. Corporatisation in Swiss local government. In: Marieke VAN GENUGTEN, Bart VOORN, Rhys ANDREWS, Ulf PAPENFUSS und Harald TORSTEINSEN (Hrsg.), Corporatisation in local government : context, evidence and perspectives from 19 countries. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. S. 221–242. ISBN 978-3-031-09981-6
Kaiser, Claire, Reto Steiner, and Jana Machljankin. 2023. “Corporatisation in Swiss Local Government.” In Corporatisation in Local Government : Context, Evidence and Perspectives from 19 Countries, edited by Marieke Van Genugten, Bart Voorn, Rhys Andrews, Ulf Papenfuss, and Harald Torsteinsen, 221–42. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09982-3_10.
Kaiser, Claire, et al. “Corporatisation in Swiss Local Government.” Corporatisation in Local Government : Context, Evidence and Perspectives from 19 Countries, edited by Marieke Van Genugten et al., Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pp. 221–42, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09982-3_10.
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