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Outsourcing justice?
Author(s) -
Stafford Anne,
Stapleton Pamela
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
financial accountability and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.661
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1468-0408
pISSN - 0267-4424
DOI - 10.1111/faam.12159
Subject(s) - outsourcing , outrage , business , economic justice , government (linguistics) , state (computer science) , public administration , accounting , economics , political science , marketing , law , microeconomics , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm , politics , computer science
The paper takes an institutional logics theoretical approach to examine how an outsourcing scandal of overcharging for electronic monitoring of offenders was managed so that, despite public outrage, government was able to maintain its outsourcing policies. Using secondary data archival sources in the public domain, it examines the actions of the contractors and state agencies. The paper shows how organisations with different logics became co‐dependent and worked together to resolve the scandal. Market logics were temporarily reined back and state logics emphasised as the contractual environment was stabilised. But ultimately their purpose was protection of the markets logics‐driven policy.