Contracting-Out Asset Maintenance: How Arrangements Adapt Over Time
Contracting-out and privatisation are key drivers of organisational and market change, which, along with technological and societal change, are “creating a new generation of infrastructures”. While new institutional arrangements have the potential to improve maintenance efficiency through consistent...
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| author | Furneaux, C. Brown, Kerry Ryan, N. Gudmundsson, A. Tywoniak, Stephane |
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| description | Contracting-out and privatisation are key drivers of organisational and market change, which, along with technological and societal change, are “creating a new generation of infrastructures”. While new institutional arrangements have the potential to improve maintenance efficiency through consistent and repeatable patterns of action - unanticipated difficulties in implementation can reduce the performance of these arrangements. Faced with unsatisfactory performance of contracting-out arrangements, government organisations may adapt and change these arrangements over time, with the aim of improving performance. This paper enhances our understanding of `next generation infrastructures' by examining adaptation of the organisational arrangements for the maintenance of these assets, in a case study spanning 20 years. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-218342017-09-13T13:52:24Z Contracting-Out Asset Maintenance: How Arrangements Adapt Over Time Furneaux, C. Brown, Kerry Ryan, N. Gudmundsson, A. Tywoniak, Stephane - Contracting-out and privatisation are key drivers of organisational and market change, which, along with technological and societal change, are “creating a new generation of infrastructures”. While new institutional arrangements have the potential to improve maintenance efficiency through consistent and repeatable patterns of action - unanticipated difficulties in implementation can reduce the performance of these arrangements. Faced with unsatisfactory performance of contracting-out arrangements, government organisations may adapt and change these arrangements over time, with the aim of improving performance. This paper enhances our understanding of `next generation infrastructures' by examining adaptation of the organisational arrangements for the maintenance of these assets, in a case study spanning 20 years. 2009 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/21834 10.1109/INFRA.2009.5397880 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE ) restricted |
| spellingShingle | Furneaux, C. Brown, Kerry Ryan, N. Gudmundsson, A. Tywoniak, Stephane Contracting-Out Asset Maintenance: How Arrangements Adapt Over Time |
| title | Contracting-Out Asset Maintenance: How Arrangements Adapt Over Time |
| title_full | Contracting-Out Asset Maintenance: How Arrangements Adapt Over Time |
| title_fullStr | Contracting-Out Asset Maintenance: How Arrangements Adapt Over Time |
| title_full_unstemmed | Contracting-Out Asset Maintenance: How Arrangements Adapt Over Time |
| title_short | Contracting-Out Asset Maintenance: How Arrangements Adapt Over Time |
| title_sort | contracting-out asset maintenance: how arrangements adapt over time |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/21834 |