How Can Procurement Contribute to Network Performance? Streamlining Network, Project and Procurement Objectives

The core business of governmental organizations like Rijkswaterstaat in the Netherlands is the optimal management of road-end waterway networks. The coming years many maintenance, renewal and extension projects will be executed in these networks. Projects give a disturbance in functionality of the network. Network management is to keep this...

The regulatory challenge of competing public values

This paper reports on the method and findings of a new type of public value research to assess the effects of regulatory oversight. A semi-ethnographic approach is to trace oversight objectives through companies providing public services. We traversed two Dutch railway companies and a Dutch electricity company with interviews and observations in...