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The Values, Institutions, and Market Factors in the Make-or-Buy decisions of the United States Postal Service

Nguyen, Hung Phu
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1228176136

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2008, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Public Policy and Management.
This dissertation studies the contracting policies and practices taking place in the United States Postal Service during the last 12 years. Using the Value-Institution-Market framework, the dissertation comes to two important findings. First, at the macro level, values and institutions factors frame the contracting environment and changes in each of these categories caused the overall aggregate contracting levels to fluctuate over certain periods of time. Second, at the micro level, in essence, it is the differences in the market factors across activities that explain, for the most part, their comparative variations of contracting levels. These findings have important implications. First, core competences of the USPS which are very politically important should be performed both by internal resources and vendors, but internal resources must play the main role. This is to safeguard that public values are sustained. Second, non-core areas – which are less politically important, less asset-specific, and have more potential vendors – should be outsourced. This is to economize costs while improve organizational performance.
Trevor Brown (Advisor)
Douglas Jones (Committee Member)
Anand Desai (Committee Member)
176 p.
Management; Organization Theory; Public Administration
Postal Service; Public Contracting; Transaction Cost Economic

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  • Nguyen, H. P. (2008). The Values, Institutions, and Market Factors in the Make-or-Buy decisions of the United States Postal Service [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1228176136

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Nguyen, Hung. The Values, Institutions, and Market Factors in the Make-or-Buy decisions of the United States Postal Service. 2008. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1228176136.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Nguyen, Hung. "The Values, Institutions, and Market Factors in the Make-or-Buy decisions of the United States Postal Service." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1228176136

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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