'Public service motivation' as an argument for government provision

By P. Francois. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Public Administration

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Trust, social capital and economic development (2005, unknown): “(17) Note that, for p < pB and p > pA, p [(1− α)π (p) + γ − b]− F < 0, however for p ∈ ¡pB, pA¢ the opposite holds.”
Competition and Incentives with Motivated Agents (2005, background): “This paper shares in common with Akerlof and Kranton (2003), Benabou and Tirole (2003), Dixit (2001), Francois (2000), Murdock (2002), and Seabright (2003) the notion that nonpecuniary aspects of motivation matter.4 In common with Crawford and Sobel (1982) and Aghion and Tirole (1997) our approach…”
University Knowledge Transfer: Private Ownership, Incentives, and Local Development Objectives (2009, background): “…adopted in public organizations because of the problem of multiple principals (Bernheim and Whinston 1986; Holmstrom and Milgrom 1988; Dixit 1997), output measurement and monitoring (Prendergast 2002), and stronger intrinsic motivation in such organizations (Francois 2000; Besley and Ghatak 2005).”
Incentives and the Efficiency of Public Sector-Outsourcing Contracts (2005, background): “ Francois (2000) uses the notion of motivated public servants to show that public provision of services can be more efficient than private provision, because there are no residual claimants in a public bureaucracy, and therefore no individual can capture the returns from shirking or quality shading”
Managerial Contracting and Corporate Social Responsibility (2008, background): “Francois (2000) focuses on public service motivation as an explanation for the government provision of services.”
Competition, cooperation, and corporate culture (2011, background): “13 In this sense, our explanation connects to Francois (2000). 14 By a similar argument, all firms make zero profit if firms can offer benefits that are strictly preferred by cooperative”
Motivating Agents: How Much Does the Mission Matter? (2016, background): “Francois ð2000Þwas an early theoretical contribution that showed that “public service motivation” could lead workers to provide more effort, even in organizations with low-powered financial incentives.”
Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management (2008, background): “Note that we can rewrite (15) such that  drops out.”
Social Norms and Economic Incentives in Firms (2012, background): “21See, for example, Francois (2000), who deals with public sector motivation from the vantage point of economics, or the recent survey on public sector motivation in the literature on public administration by Wright (2001).”
Did New Public Management Matter? An empirical analysis of the outsourcing and decentralization effects on public sector size (2015, background): “Following Francois (2000), ‘public service motivation’ may be a powerful reason to justify government provision of public services – in terms of costs and government expenditure – instead of private provision.”