From Bureaucracy to Business Enterprise : Legal and Policy Issues in the Transformation of Government Services

This title was first published in 2003. This book summarises the principal policy initiatives used in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and New Zealand which have improved the efficiency of service delivery. Contrasts are made between commercialization, corporatization and privatization. The main focus of the book is on government corporations and the substantive content is divided into three sections: market issues, corporate governance issues and legal and ethical issues, looking at how markets, corporate governance processes and judicial review affect the efficiency and ethics of service delivery.

This title was first published in 2003.This book analyzes the policy initiatives used in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States to improve the efficiency of government service delivery, such as commercialization, privatization, and, in particular, corporatization. The book looks at how markets, corporate governance processes, and judicial and administrative reviews affect the efficiency and ethics of service delivery. The book crosses a number of academic disciplines - corporate law and governance, law and economics, public choice theory, ethics and public law and administration. It will also be of value to a range of professional constituencies - to those involved in governance functions in government and privatized corporations, to professionals servicing these organizations, and to officials administering government services. These issues are also highly pertinent to emerging economies where governance of public services is crucial to the transition to market democracy.