Outsourcing public sector services to electronic commerce players

Anna Sell, Erkki Patokorpi, Bill Anckar, Pirkko Walden

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    Abstract

    In December 2000, the municipal social service department of the city of Turku, Finland, outsourced its open care grocery shopping to an online grocery retailer. Prior to the implementation of the online service, the open care employees had taken care of grocery shopping for all those customers who were not able to do it themselves. The city officials expected that an outside e- commerce player would among other things bring time savings so that the open care service would be able to focus on the hard core of open care - caring for the elderly and the disabled at home. This paper examines the expected and realised value from outsourcing from the viewpoint of the three main stakeholders: the customers, the employees and the management. The findings are based on employee and customer surveys as well as interviews with the open care management.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
    PublisherIEEE
    ISBN (Print)0-7695-2056-1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2004
    MoE publication typeA4 Article in a conference publication
    Event Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Big Island, United States
    Duration: 5 Jan 20048 Jan 2004
    Conference number: 37

    Conference

    Conference Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityBig Island
    Period05/01/0408/01/04

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