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Procuring Complex Performance (PCP) in the UK Defense Sector

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Public and private organizations are transitioning from buying or selling products to procuring or selling complex, long-term integrated solutions consisting of bundles of interrelated products and services. In response to an increasing demand for innovative solutions and a shortage of public funding, governments around the world are increasingly turning to public-private relationships as the principal method for delivering public sector infrastructure and associated services. For instance, the UK has seen a sharp increase in so-called Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) and Private Finance Initiatives (PFIs) to deliver public sector infrastructure and associated services across sectors such as healthcare, transport and education. This development towards innovative, complex solution provision in the public sector offers unique opportunities and challenges. Inevitably, these shifts mean that interorganizational interactions are also changing – in terms of their scale, scope and dynamics. This chapter offers a theoretical treatment of key research streams of procuring complex performance (PCP) research, underpinned by an empirical investigation of this phenomenon in the UK defense sector.

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    Dr. Jens K. Roehrich

  2. Logistics Research Centre, Heriot Watt University, Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom

    Dr. Nigel D. Caldwell

  3. School of Management, University of Bath, Slimbridge Gloucester, United Kingdom

    Prof. Michael A. Lewis

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Roehrich, J., Caldwell, N., Lewis, M. (2014). Procuring Complex Performance (PCP) in the UK Defense Sector. In: Eßig, M., Glas, A. (eds) Performance Based Logistics. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8349-3726-1_6

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