Decentralization of the Water Industry in the Context of Economies in Transition: On the Example of the Czech Republic From 1992-1998
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<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1196-1.ch021" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1196-1.ch021</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1196-1.ch021" target="_blank" >10.4018/978-1-7998-1196-1.ch021</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Decentralization of the Water Industry in the Context of Economies in Transition: On the Example of the Czech Republic From 1992-1998
Original language description
The water industry is one of the pillars of the so-called network branches and is one of the key segments of the economy. The distribution of drinking water and conducting away of sewage water via public piping is nowadays considered to be a matter-of-course service without which we could hardly imagine our day-to-day lives to exist. That is why providing this crucial infrastructure is one of the fundamental duties of the public sector. However, in the context of this infrastructure, many market failures and high costs for the government when rectifying potential damages are often pointed out (Klien, 2015; Cave, Wright, 2010). There are different opinions as well, based on the fact that even the water industry is a classic area of the so-called mixed economy, in which private and public interests clash (Mejstřík, 2004). Experiences from other network branches, such as railway transportation or energy industry, also show that the participation of the private sector provides many benefits in the form of higher efficiency and level of provided services (Klien, Salvetti, 2018; Cavalho, Marques, Berg, 2012; Amos, 2004). The Czech Republic at the end of the 1990s took this route since it allowed the private sector to enter the water industry and the transfer of water infrastructure into private hands (Hlaváč, 2006). This was however preceded by a rather complicated transformation process in the 1990s which directed the entire branch towards its current highly fragmented form. The analysis of this fragmentation process is the core of this text.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF17_048%2F0007435" target="_blank" >EF17_048/0007435: Smart City - Smart Region - Smart Community</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Handbook of research on creating sustainable value in the global economy
ISBN
978-1-79981-196-1
Number of pages of the result
17
Pages from-to
366-382
Number of pages of the book
562
Publisher name
IGI Global
Place of publication
Hershey
UT code for WoS chapter
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