[Arrow, K. J. 1985. “The Economics of Agency.” In J. W. Pratt and R. J. Zeckhauser (eds). Principals and Agents: The Structure of Business. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 37-51.]Search in Google Scholar
[Bailey, S. J. 1999. Public Sector Economics. London: Macmillan.]Search in Google Scholar
[Balažova, E. 2006. Benchmarking služieb miestnej samosprávy na Slovensku. Bratislava: TIS.]Search in Google Scholar
[Beblavy, M. and E. Sičakova-Beblava. 2006 Inštitucionálne dilemy pri zabezpečovaníverejných služieb. Prešov: TIS.]Search in Google Scholar
[Bel, G. and A. Costas. 2006. “Do Public Sector Reforms Get Rusty ? An Empirical Analysis on Privatization of Solid Waste Collection.” The Journal of PolicyReform 9 (1), 1-24.]Search in Google Scholar
[Brown, T. L. and M. Potoski. 2003 “Contract-Management Capacity in Municipal and County Governments.” Public Administration Review 63, 153-164.]Search in Google Scholar
[Brudney, J. L., S. Fernandez, J. E. Ryu and D. S. Wright. 2005. “Exploring and Explaining Contracting Out: Patterns Among the American States.” Journal ofPublic Administration Research and Theory 15, 393-419.]Search in Google Scholar
[Bunčak, J., R. Džambazovič, A. Hrabovska and J. Sopoci. 2008. Názory občanov nabudúcnosť Slovenska. Bratislava: EU SAV.]Search in Google Scholar
[Cooper, P. J. 2003. Governing by Contract. Washington D.C.: CQ Press.]Search in Google Scholar
[DeHoog, R. H. 1990. “Competition, Negotiation, or Cooperation: Three Models for Service Contracting.” Administration and Society 22, 317-340.]Search in Google Scholar
[Engelbeck, R. M. 2004. Using Metrics to Manage Contractor Performance. Graduate School of Business & Public Policy at the Naval Postgraduate School. Available at http://www.acquisitionresearch.org/_files/FY2004/NPS-CM-04-011.pdf (last accessed 15 April 2012).]Search in Google Scholar
[Epstein, P. D. 1984. Using Performa nce Measurement in Local Government. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc.]Search in Google Scholar
[Ferris, J. and P. Graddy. 1996. Institutional Economics and Government Contracting:Lessons for the New Public Management. Paper prepared for the conference on The New Public Management in International Perspective, Institute of Public Finance and Fiscal Law, 11-13 July in St Gallen, Switzerland. Available at http://www.inpuma.net/research/conference/Papers/fergrad.doc (last accessed 15 April 2012).]Search in Google Scholar
[Greene, J. D. 2002. Cities and Privatization: Prospects for the New Century. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.]Search in Google Scholar
[Hefetz, A. and M. Warner. 2004. “Privatization and its Reverse: Explaining the Dynamics of the Government Contracting Process.” Journal of Public AdministrationResearch and Theory 14, 171-190.]Search in Google Scholar
[Hirsch, W. Z. 1991. Privatizing Government Services: An Economic Analysis of Contractingby Local Governments. Los Angeles: Institute of Industrial Relations, Publications Centre, University of California.]Search in Google Scholar
[Hodge, G. A. 2000. Privatization: An International Review of Performance. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.]Search in Google Scholar
[Kamerman, S. B. and A. J. Kahn. 1989. Privatization and the Welfare State. Princeton: Princeton University Press.10.1515/9781400860135]Search in Google Scholar
[Kettl, D. F. 1993. Sharing Power: Public Governance and Private Markets. Washington D.C.: The Brookings Institution.]Search in Google Scholar
[Lane, J. E. 2000. New Public Management. London: Routledge Taylor Francis Group. Lowery, D. 1998. “Consumer Sovereignty and Quasi-Market Failure.” Journal ofPublic Administration Research and Theory 8 (2), 137-172.]Search in Google Scholar
[Majlingova, L. and V. Šagat. 2006. “Zabezpečovanie služieb miestnou samospravou.” Acta Aerarii Publici 3 (2), 34-41.]Search in Google Scholar
[Marlin, J. T. 1984. Contracting Municipal Services: A Guide for Purchase from thePrivate Sector. New York: Wiley.]Search in Google Scholar
[Macneil, I. R. 1978. “Contracts: Adjustments of Long-Term Economic Relations under Classical, Neoclassical and Relational Contract Law.” NorthwesternUniversity Law Review 72, 855-905.]Search in Google Scholar
[Meričkova, B. 2010. “Faktory efektivnosti efektivnosti kontrahovania služieb vo verejnom sektore.” In Květa Kubatova (ed.). Teoretické a praktické aspektyveřejných financií. Praha: Vysoka škola ekonomicka Praha, Oeconomica.]Search in Google Scholar
[Meričkova, B., J. Nemec and F. Ochrana. 2008. “Introducing Benchmarking in the Czech Republic and Slovakia: Processes, Problems and Lessons.” Public ManagementReview 10 (5), 673-684.]Search in Google Scholar
[Meričkova, B., J. Nemec, E. Sičakova-Beblava and M. Beblavy. 2010 Kontrahovanieslužieb vo verejnom sektore. Bratislava: Transparency International Slovensko.]Search in Google Scholar
[Meričkova, B., J. Nemec and L. Vitek. 2005. “Contracting-out at Local Government Level: Theory and Selected Evidence from Czech and Slovak Republics.” PublicManagement Review 7 (4), 638-647.]Search in Google Scholar
[More, T. M. 1984. “The New Economics of Organization.” American Journal of PoliticalScience 4 (28), 739-777.]Search in Google Scholar
[Ochrana, F. 2007. Veřejné služby: jejich poskytování, zadávaní a hodnocení. Praha: Ekopress.]Search in Google Scholar
[Ovretveit, J. 1995. Purchasing for Health. London: Oxford University Press.]Search in Google Scholar
[Pavel, J. 2007. Ekonomické aspekty veřejných zakázek. Praha: Vysoka škola ekonomicka v Praze.]Search in Google Scholar
[Pavel, J. 2006. Efektivnost a transparentnost obecních obchodních spolecností. Transparency International Czech Republic. Available at http://www.transparency.cz/pdf/vz_obecni_firmy_pavel.pdf (last accessed 15 April 2012).]Search in Google Scholar
[Pavel, J. and E. Beblava. 2008. “Transparentnosť trhu verejneho obstaravania.” Ekonomickýčasopis 56 (2), 168-181.]Search in Google Scholar
[Pollitt, Ch. and G. Bouckaert. 2000. Public Management Reform: A ComparativeAnalysis. London: Oxford University Press.]Search in Google Scholar
[Prager, J. 1994. “Contracting Out Government Services: Lessons from the Private Sector.” Public Administration Review 54 (2), 176-184. Pratt, J. W. and R. J. Zeckhauser. 1986. “Principals and Agents: The Structure of Business.” Journal of Economic Literature 24 (4), 1788-1789.]Search in Google Scholar
[Rehfuss, J. A. 1989. Contracting Out in Government. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.]Search in Google Scholar
[Romzek, B. S. and J. M. Johnston. 2002. “Effective Contract Implementation and Management: A Preliminary Model.” Journal of Public Administration Researchand Theory 12, 423-453.]Search in Google Scholar
[Savas, E. S. 1987. Privatisation: The Key to Government. New York: Chatman House.]Search in Google Scholar
[Sclar, E. D. 2000. You Don’t Always Get What You Pay For: The Economics of Privatization. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.]Search in Google Scholar
[Šebo, J. and Š. Macejak. 2008. Záujmové organizácie a lobing. Banska Bystrica: Ekonomicka fakulta UMB.]Search in Google Scholar
[Seidenstat, P. 1999. Contracting Out Government Services. Westport: Praeger.]Search in Google Scholar
[Shetterly, D. R. 1998. “The Influence of Contract Designs on Contractor Performance.” Public Performance & Management Review 24 (1), 53-68.]Search in Google Scholar
[Stiglitz, J. E. 1997. Economics of the Public Sector. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ]Search in Google Scholar