Internal Factors of Intermunicipal Cooperation: What matters most and why?

SOUKOPOVÁ, Jana and Gabriela VACEKOVÁ. Internal Factors of Intermunicipal Cooperation: What matters most and why? Local Government Studies. Taylor & Francis, 2018, vol. 44, No 1, p. 105-126. ISSN 0300-3930. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2017.1395739.

Basic information

• Original name: Internal Factors of Intermunicipal Cooperation: What matters most and why?
• Authors: SOUKOPOVÁ, Jana (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Gabriela VACEKOVÁ (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Local Government Studies, Taylor & Francis, 2018, 0300-3930.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 50200 5.2 Economics and Business
• Country of publisher: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• Impact factor: Impact factor: 1.825
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14560/18:00100724
• Organization unit: Faculty of Economics and Administration
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2017.1395739
• UT WoS: 000423770600009
• Keywords (in Czech): odpadové hospodářství; ČR; meziobecní spolupráce; nákladová efektivnost; institucionalizace
• Keywords in English: waste management; Czech Republic; intermunicipal cooperation; cost effectiveness; institutionalization
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

This paper focuses on the internal aspects of intermunicipal cooperation, providing a new and innovative approach to the cost effectiveness of municipal waste management. We examine a sample of 658 municipalities in the Czech Republic’s South Moravian Region and 205 cooperating municipalities separately during 2012 - 2014. The results, based on ordinary least-squares regression, show that cost reduction is significantly influenced by the institutional arrangement of intermunicipal cooperation, the participation of municipal representatives in management, and professional managers. The paper showes that a crucial role in cost reduction is played by internal factors that have been investigated only marginally so far. Cost increases are related to municipality sizes larger than 10,000 inhabitants and to profit-oriented behaviours of waste collection companies. The results differ in the size samples of municipalities; only the impact of institutional arrangement is significant in all groups of municipalities.

Links

• GA17-15887S, research and development project: Name: Identifikace klíčových faktorů úspěšné meziobecní spolupráce

Investor: Czech Science Foundation