A typology of shared service provision in Australian local government

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Dollery, Brian, Grant, Bligh and Akimov, Alexandr. 2010. "A typology of shared service provision in Australian local government." Australian Geographer. 41 (2), pp. 217-231. https://doi.org/10.1080/00049181003742310

Article Title	A typology of shared service provision in Australian local government
ERA Journal ID	2002
Article Category	Article
Authors	Dollery, Brian (Author), Grant, Bligh (Author) and Akimov, Alexandr (Author)
Journal Title	Australian Geographer
Journal Citation	41 (2), pp. 217-231
Number of Pages	15
Year	2010
Place of Publication	Sydney, Australia
ISSN	0004-9182
	1465-3311
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1080/00049181003742310
Web Address (URL)	http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00049181003742310
Abstract	Disappointment with the results of forced amalgamation programs across almost all Australian local government jurisdictions has created great interest in shared service models as an alternative method of improving the operational efficiency of local councils, while at the same time preserving local democracy and local autonomy. While an embryonic literature on shared service provision in the Australian municipal milieu does exist, much remains to be done. This paper seeks to contribute to this nascent literature in two main ways: (a) to locate shared services in local government within broader global trends and theoretical disputations on devolution and local economic development, highlighting the importance of political geography in these debates; and (b) in the light of this complexity and ambiguity, develop a new typology of local government shared service provision to inform public policy making on real-world problems in Australian local government.
Keywords	amalgamation; local democracy; local government; spatial scale economies; shared services.
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020	440801. Australian government and politics
	350799. Strategy, management and organisational behaviour not elsewhere classified
	380399. Economic theory not elsewhere classified
Public Notes	Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions.
Byline Affiliations	University of New England
	School of Accounting, Economics and Finance
	Griffith University

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