Good Enough for Government Work? An Incomplete Contracts Approach to the Use of Nonprofits in U.S. Federal Procurement

Business & Economics

• Incomplete Contracts 76%
• Procurement 49%
• Government 33%
• Nonprofit Organization 27%
• Asset Specificity 24%
• United States of America 23%
• Costs 19%
• Government Agencies 13%
• Choice of Organizational Form 10%
• Organization Form 8%
• Public Sector 8%
• Specific Investments 7%
• Incompleteness 7%
• Transaction Cost Economics 7%
• Organizational Form 6%
• Contracting 5%
• Propensity 5%
• Expenses 5%
• Inflation 4%
• Alternatives 3%

Social Sciences

• federal procurement 100%
• incomplete contract 93%
• costs 29%
• non-profit-organization 20%
• assets 16%
• government agency 12%
• specific investment 10%
• transaction costs 7%
• gold 7%
• inflation 7%
• public sector 5%
• economics 2%