000			02144nam a22001577a 4500
999			_c522605 _d522605
008			230429b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
100			_aMu, R., Wu, P. and Haershanl, M. _940169
245			_aPre-contractual relational governance for public–private partnerships: How can ex-ante relational governance help formal contracting in smart city outsourcing projects?
260			_aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
300			_a89(1), Mar, 2023: p.112-128
520			_aIn the literature on relational governance, it is often assumed that relational governance emerges primarily after formal contracting and acts as a functional supplement to a formal contract. In this article, we show that especially facing deep uncertainties, relational governance can emerge before the start of formal partnerships, in the form of trust-building, exchanging resources, and fostering flexibility. Based on a case study of a smart city outsourcing project, this article introduces a forward-extended framework of relational governance that captures the pre-contractual dimensions of relationship cultivation and their role in facilitating formal contracting. The study finds that pre-contractual relational governance facilitates formal contracting by reducing substantive, evaluative, technological, and procedural uncertainties in the project and helps the partners to design an elaborative contract, undergo an easy negotiation, adopt short-term contracts, and use simple monitoring and evaluation methods. The article thus argues that only understanding post-contractual relational governance is insufficient for exploring the relation between formal contracting and relational governance; facing deep uncertainties, it is necessary to understand how public and private parties develop their pre-contractual relationship and reduce the uncertainties before a formal contract can be signed.- Reproduced
650			_aPublic-private partnership, Outsourcing, Relational governance, Uncertainty, Smart city _938021
773			_aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
906			_aPUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP
942			_cAR