The subject of this case study, Wiener Linien GmbH & Co KG, is the biggest company in Austrian local and regional transport sector. As a formally independent enterprise under private law and owned by the city, it has been the sole provider of local public passenger transport services in the City...

One of the main unresolved issues is the way on which a social enterprise can be embedded in a market economy. That problem is approached here by offering a sound foundation for social-economic modeling with private, non-profit and public sectors.An enterprise, being a nexus of relations, is...

In the last two decades there has been a strong drive by the EU-Regulation of liberalizing the service delivery of Services of General Economic Interest. Public enterprises are under pressure to be more market-orientated. In Germany there has been a long tradition that public enterprises are...

This paper is purposeful towards assessing the significance, state and development of the third sector in Bulgaria. Its first part deals with the theoretical background and specific characteristics of the sector that distinguish and define it as a successful way whereby social problems are...

Public services in all countries are related to the basic needs that people should satisfy in order to warranty a worthy quality of life. The water and sanitation services provision is one of these services. Through this study, the case of water and sanitation provision in Peru will be analyzed....

This paper describes the new database of the International Observatory of Financial Services Cooperatives (FSCs) set up by the Desjardins Center for Studies in Management of FSCs located at HEC-Montreal. The database covers 38 FSCs with 70 data fields per year over a period of 8.8 years on...

BC Ferries is a provincially owned and operated provider of marine transportation services in British Columbia on Canada’s Pacific West coast. In 2012, it moved over 20 million people and 7.8 million vehicles and is a critical component of the provinces’ transportation infrastructure. Almost...

A partir du début des années nonante, le secteur ferroviaire européen a connu de profondes mutations suite à l’application des directives européennes. Cet article étudie l’efficience technique des opérateurs de chemins de fer dans 15 pays européens entre 1990 et 2001. L’application...

Traditionally, in the city of Milan, energy services were supplied by the AEM, the in-house energy enterprise that was established in 1910. While being part of Milan' city administration, the AEM was an example of efficient management and dynamic entrepreneurship in the public sector. Since the...