Factors Influencing the Selection of Waste Collection Companies by Municipalities – Are Municipal Decision Effective?

Jana Soukopová () and Vojtìch Ficek
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Vojtìch Ficek: Department of Public Economics, Masaryk University

MUNI ECON Working Papers from Masaryk University

Abstract: This paper is based on an analysis of factors influencing the selection of waste collection companies by municipal authorities in selected municipalities in the Czech Republic, and their impact on the cost efficiency of current municipal expenditures. The aim of this paper is analysing the factors influencing the choice of waste management company and the influence of these factors on the decision making process, and discussing the relation of these factors to the cost efficiency of municipal waste management. The first part of this paper is focused on the factors influencing the choice of waste management company and the influence of these factors on the decision making process, and discusses the relation of these factors to the cost efficiency of municipal waste management. In the other part of this paper we focus our attention on the form of ownership (public and private companies) and strength of competition as two key factors which are frequently mentioned in many foreign research papers and which influence the importance of other factors. The study uses a quantitative approach to investigate the research questions and analyses original collected qualitative survey data obtained during our own research. A survey was conducted for a selected local public service (waste management) in order to collect data about factors influencing the selection of waste collection companies by 115 municipalities in the Czech Republic. The results show that the most powerful factors that influence the selection of waste collection companies at municipalities in the Czech Republic are the price and the quality of services. It was also clearly shown that the significance of individual factors is related to the competitive environment. The level of significance of individual factors is directly proportional to the strength of the competitive environment.

Keywords: municipalities; waste management; waste collection companies; competitiveness; efficiency; municipal decisions; the Czech Republic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H76 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2014-11, Revised 2014-12
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