Ma, L., Christensen, T. and  Zheng, Y.  <br/><br/>
Government technological capacity and public–private partnerships regarding digital service delivery: Evidence from Chinese cities 

 - International Review of Administrative Sciences 
 - 89(1), Mar, 2023: p.95-111 
<br/><br/> Governments have increased their collaboration with the private sector regarding public service delivery, and their propensities to do so are largely shaped by their own in-house capacities. In this article, we theorize and analyze whether governments with an extremely low or extremely high technological capacity are more likely to collaborate with third-party platforms in order to jointly provide digital services. We expect there to be a U-shaped relationship between the technological capacity of those governments and their public–private partnership choices. An empirical analysis of digital service delivery across 290 prefecture-level cities in China corroborates this hypothesis. These results deepen our understanding of the competing motivations that drive the public–private partnership process. – Reproduced  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Chinese cities, Digital service delivery, Government technological capacity, Public private partnership, Third-party platforms.