Performance assessment; non-profit providers; Public providers; for-profit providers; home services; voucher-service system
Abstract :
[en] Within the Belgian service-voucher system, various types of organizations can provide services (house cleaning, ironing and various types of help to vulnerable persons). Based on a detailed survey covering 50 providers of different types, this paper examines their comparative performance based on three different specifications of the latter and by using Data Envelopment Analysis.
Research Center/Unit :
CES - Centre d'Économie Sociale - ULiège
Disciplines :
Social economics
Author, co-author :
Defourny, Jacques ; Université de Liège - ULiège > HEC-Ecole de gestion : UER > Economie sociale et systèmes économiques
Henry, Arnaud
Language :
English
Title :
The comparative performance of for-profit, public and third sector providers. The case of the "service-vouchers" field in Belgium".
