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Konstantinos P Tsagarakis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Evaluating Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Improved Potable Water Quality and Quantity
Water Resources Management, 2008Co-Authors: Margarita Genius, E Hatzaki, E Kouromichelaki, G Kouvakis, S Nikiforaki, Konstantinos P TsagarakisAbstract:The present research is about water supply shortages and low drinking water quality in the Municipality of Rethymno during peak water demand periods. More specifically, the aim of this work is to elicit Rethymno residents’ willingness to pay (WTP), by applying the CVM methodology, as the percent over their water bill, for the completion of future projects that the Municipal Enterprise for Water Supply and Sewerage (MEWSS) of Rethymno intends to implement to avoid shortages and improve tap water quality. The current contingent valuation study is performed based on data collected through personal interviews where respondents are asked about their WTP for a given improvement in the water supply. The results point out that female respondents, households with high income, with children, and households which do not use tap water for drinking, are on average willing to pay more. The mean WTP for these future projects was estimated to be 10.64 € (17.67% of the average bill). The mean WTP amount can be useful to decision makers undertaking an environmental cost benefit analysis, where full cost should be recovered. Interviewing people in the context of a valuation scenario, informs them for improvements that will be undertaken from the new projects under consideration and at the same time involves them as users in the decision making process.
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evaluating consumers willingness to pay for improved potable water quality and quantity
Water Resources Management, 2008Co-Authors: Margarita Genius, E Hatzaki, E Kouromichelaki, G Kouvakis, S Nikiforaki, Konstantinos P TsagarakisAbstract:The present research is about water supply shortages and low drinking water quality in the Municipality of Rethymno during peak water demand periods. More specifically, the aim of this work is to elicit Rethymno residents’ willingness to pay (WTP), by applying the CVM methodology, as the percent over their water bill, for the completion of future projects that the Municipal Enterprise for Water Supply and Sewerage (MEWSS) of Rethymno intends to implement to avoid shortages and improve tap water quality. The current contingent valuation study is performed based on data collected through personal interviews where respondents are asked about their WTP for a given improvement in the water supply. The results point out that female respondents, households with high income, with children, and households which do not use tap water for drinking, are on average willing to pay more. The mean WTP for these future projects was estimated to be 10.64 € (17.67% of the average bill). The mean WTP amount can be useful to decision makers undertaking an environmental cost benefit analysis, where full cost should be recovered. Interviewing people in the context of a valuation scenario, informs them for improvements that will be undertaken from the new projects under consideration and at the same time involves them as users in the decision making process.
Theodore J. Stumm - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Revenue generation and expenditure implications of Municipal non-utility Enterprises
Journal of Public Budgeting Accounting & Financial Management, 1996Co-Authors: Theodore J. StummAbstract:Although Municipal Enterprise funds provide several advantages to cities in the provision of goods and services, little is known about how these Municipally operated businesses affect other aspects of the fiscal management practices of the cities which use them. This is particularly true of non-utility Enterprises. This study uses the concept of net revenue transfers to examine how five commonly used non-utility Enterprises impact the tax, expenditure, and revenue generation practices of cities. The results provide a new perspective and counter some commonly held views about non-utility Enterprises.
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Municipal Enterprise Activities as Revenue Generators: A Different View
The American Review of Public Administration, 1996Co-Authors: Theodore J. StummAbstract:Enterprise funds provide one means by which cities provide Municipal goods and services to their residents while generating revenues to augment cities' other revenue-generating activities or substitute for other forms of revenue. Because Municipal Enterprises are accounted for in separate proprietary funds, determining the extent to which the revenues they generate are actually usable by non-Enterprise functions is somewhat more difficult than we have generally presumed. I use data from a recent national survey of cities to demonstrate how common measures of Municipal Enterprise revenue generation may be misleading and propose a measure that will provide more reliable data for both researchers and Municipal decision makers.
Margarita Genius - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Evaluating Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Improved Potable Water Quality and Quantity
Water Resources Management, 2008Co-Authors: Margarita Genius, E Hatzaki, E Kouromichelaki, G Kouvakis, S Nikiforaki, Konstantinos P TsagarakisAbstract:The present research is about water supply shortages and low drinking water quality in the Municipality of Rethymno during peak water demand periods. More specifically, the aim of this work is to elicit Rethymno residents’ willingness to pay (WTP), by applying the CVM methodology, as the percent over their water bill, for the completion of future projects that the Municipal Enterprise for Water Supply and Sewerage (MEWSS) of Rethymno intends to implement to avoid shortages and improve tap water quality. The current contingent valuation study is performed based on data collected through personal interviews where respondents are asked about their WTP for a given improvement in the water supply. The results point out that female respondents, households with high income, with children, and households which do not use tap water for drinking, are on average willing to pay more. The mean WTP for these future projects was estimated to be 10.64 € (17.67% of the average bill). The mean WTP amount can be useful to decision makers undertaking an environmental cost benefit analysis, where full cost should be recovered. Interviewing people in the context of a valuation scenario, informs them for improvements that will be undertaken from the new projects under consideration and at the same time involves them as users in the decision making process.
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evaluating consumers willingness to pay for improved potable water quality and quantity
Water Resources Management, 2008Co-Authors: Margarita Genius, E Hatzaki, E Kouromichelaki, G Kouvakis, S Nikiforaki, Konstantinos P TsagarakisAbstract:The present research is about water supply shortages and low drinking water quality in the Municipality of Rethymno during peak water demand periods. More specifically, the aim of this work is to elicit Rethymno residents’ willingness to pay (WTP), by applying the CVM methodology, as the percent over their water bill, for the completion of future projects that the Municipal Enterprise for Water Supply and Sewerage (MEWSS) of Rethymno intends to implement to avoid shortages and improve tap water quality. The current contingent valuation study is performed based on data collected through personal interviews where respondents are asked about their WTP for a given improvement in the water supply. The results point out that female respondents, households with high income, with children, and households which do not use tap water for drinking, are on average willing to pay more. The mean WTP for these future projects was estimated to be 10.64 € (17.67% of the average bill). The mean WTP amount can be useful to decision makers undertaking an environmental cost benefit analysis, where full cost should be recovered. Interviewing people in the context of a valuation scenario, informs them for improvements that will be undertaken from the new projects under consideration and at the same time involves them as users in the decision making process.
Päivikki Kuoppakangas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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adopting a Municipal Enterprise form expectations and outcomes three cases and dilemmas
Journal of Change Management, 2014Co-Authors: Päivikki KuoppakangasAbstract:Using the tenets of institutional and dilemma theory, this paper identifies the core dilemmas underlying the decision making in the transformation into a Municipal Enterprise form in the three case organizations. The focus is on the expectations and outcomes of the change processes. The results show that the dilemmas as well as the isomorphic forces affect the institutional process in diminishing or enhancing the isomorphism. The paper thus illustrates how dilemmas, together with isomorphic forces, are connected to decision making. It further highlights the need to investigate strategic dilemma management as a tool for resolving contradictory aims in the management of change in the public healthcare sector.
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Adopting a Municipal Enterprise Form: Expectations and Outcomes – Three Cases and Dilemmas
Journal of Change Management, 2013Co-Authors: Päivikki KuoppakangasAbstract:Using the tenets of institutional and dilemma theory, this paper identifies the core dilemmas underlying the decision making in the transformation into a Municipal Enterprise form in the three case organizations. The focus is on the expectations and outcomes of the change processes. The results show that the dilemmas as well as the isomorphic forces affect the institutional process in diminishing or enhancing the isomorphism. The paper thus illustrates how dilemmas, together with isomorphic forces, are connected to decision making. It further highlights the need to investigate strategic dilemma management as a tool for resolving contradictory aims in the management of change in the public healthcare sector.
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Adopting the Municipal Enterprise Form in Finland: Core Dilemmas in the Transformation of Public Healthcare Organizations
Public Organization Review, 2013Co-Authors: Päivikki KuoppakangasAbstract:Using a combination of institutional and dilemma theory, this article maps the core dilemmas underlying the transformation of three public healthcare organizations into Municipal Enterprises. The results concerning the expectations and outcomes of the processes of change show that identified dilemmas affect the isomorphic institutional process by either diminishing or enhancing isomorphic forces. Further analysis reveals the unconscious use of the dilemma reconciliation method among the senior managers and other decision-makers in the organizations. The discussion illustrates how dilemmas, together with isomorphic forces, are connected to decision-making. It highlights the need to investigate strategic dilemma management as a tool for resolving contradictory aims in the public healthcare sector.
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Adopting the Municipal Enterprise Form in Finland: Core Dilemmas in the Transformation of Public Healthcare Organizations
Public Organization Review, 2013Co-Authors: Päivikki KuoppakangasAbstract:Using a combination of institutional and dilemma theory, this article maps the core dilemmas underlying the transformation of three public healthcare organizations into Municipal Enterprises. The results concerning the expectations and outcomes of the processes of change show that identified dilemmas affect the isomorphic institutional process by either diminishing or enhancing isomorphic forces. Further analysis reveals the unconscious use of the dilemma reconciliation method among the senior managers and other decision-makers in the organizations. The discussion illustrates how dilemmas, together with isomorphic forces, are connected to decision-making. It highlights the need to investigate strategic dilemma management as a tool for resolving contradictory aims in the public healthcare sector. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
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Bandwagoning Municipal Enterprises: institutional isomorphism and the search for the Third Way
Policy Studies, 2013Co-Authors: Tomi J. Kallio, Päivikki KuoppakangasAbstract:During the last decade, the number of Municipal Enterprises in Finland has almost tripled. This paper attempts to understand the phenomenon related to the recent mushrooming of Municipal Enterprises. This is done by three empirical case analyses of university hospital laboratories. In two of the three case organisations, there is very little indication that any strategy or other rational reasoning would explain the adoption of Municipal Enterprise form, and the analysis suggests that institutional isomorphism plays an essential role in the adoption of the Municipal Enterprise form. Moreover, there are signs that the search for the ‘Third Way’ of some local politicians, especially in the case of some early mover organisations, like the third case organisation of this study, might have triggered the development which has led to the bandwagon effect. The popularity of New Public Management (NPM) and the promises of the NPM mantra, suggesting, e.g. efficiency, cost-effectiveness and more flexible management, ...
E Hatzaki - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Evaluating Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Improved Potable Water Quality and Quantity
Water Resources Management, 2008Co-Authors: Margarita Genius, E Hatzaki, E Kouromichelaki, G Kouvakis, S Nikiforaki, Konstantinos P TsagarakisAbstract:The present research is about water supply shortages and low drinking water quality in the Municipality of Rethymno during peak water demand periods. More specifically, the aim of this work is to elicit Rethymno residents’ willingness to pay (WTP), by applying the CVM methodology, as the percent over their water bill, for the completion of future projects that the Municipal Enterprise for Water Supply and Sewerage (MEWSS) of Rethymno intends to implement to avoid shortages and improve tap water quality. The current contingent valuation study is performed based on data collected through personal interviews where respondents are asked about their WTP for a given improvement in the water supply. The results point out that female respondents, households with high income, with children, and households which do not use tap water for drinking, are on average willing to pay more. The mean WTP for these future projects was estimated to be 10.64 € (17.67% of the average bill). The mean WTP amount can be useful to decision makers undertaking an environmental cost benefit analysis, where full cost should be recovered. Interviewing people in the context of a valuation scenario, informs them for improvements that will be undertaken from the new projects under consideration and at the same time involves them as users in the decision making process.
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evaluating consumers willingness to pay for improved potable water quality and quantity
Water Resources Management, 2008Co-Authors: Margarita Genius, E Hatzaki, E Kouromichelaki, G Kouvakis, S Nikiforaki, Konstantinos P TsagarakisAbstract:The present research is about water supply shortages and low drinking water quality in the Municipality of Rethymno during peak water demand periods. More specifically, the aim of this work is to elicit Rethymno residents’ willingness to pay (WTP), by applying the CVM methodology, as the percent over their water bill, for the completion of future projects that the Municipal Enterprise for Water Supply and Sewerage (MEWSS) of Rethymno intends to implement to avoid shortages and improve tap water quality. The current contingent valuation study is performed based on data collected through personal interviews where respondents are asked about their WTP for a given improvement in the water supply. The results point out that female respondents, households with high income, with children, and households which do not use tap water for drinking, are on average willing to pay more. The mean WTP for these future projects was estimated to be 10.64 € (17.67% of the average bill). The mean WTP amount can be useful to decision makers undertaking an environmental cost benefit analysis, where full cost should be recovered. Interviewing people in the context of a valuation scenario, informs them for improvements that will be undertaken from the new projects under consideration and at the same time involves them as users in the decision making process.
