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"Sergio G. Lazzarini is the Chafi Haddad Professor of Management at Insper in Brazil. He is the Director of Insper Metricis, a center dedicated to the study of impact management and measurement. Sergio has held visiting positions at Harvard University (2010, 2012), University of St Gallen (2009), HEC Paris (2014), Insead (2015), Brandeis (2016), Imperial College (2017), and the University of Utah (2019). His research has received several prizes including the Glueck Best Paper Award of the Strategic Management Division of the Academy of Management (2003), Best Presentation Prize of the Strategic Management Society Special Conference in Rio (2011), Best Paper Award of the Strategy Division (Cooperative Strategy Track) of the Academy of Management (2020) and the Jabuti Prize for the book Capitalism of Ties (2010). In 2014, he published the book Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond (Harvard University Press, with Aldo Musacchio)"--
List of contents
1. Public or private? The conceptual foundations; 2. The effectiveness-inclusion framework; 3. Public, private, and their variations: A comparative analysis; 4. Privatization needs capable governments; 5. Completing the contracts: Paying for social outcomes; 6. Private investors in the public interest?; 7. Public promotion of private capabilities; 8. A roadmap to privatization (and its alternatives).
About the author
Sergio G. Lazzarini is the Chafi Haddad Professor of Management at Insper in Brazil, and the founder and director of Insper Metricis, a center dedicated to the study of impact management and measurement. His research has received several prizes including the Glueck Best Paper Award of the Strategic Management Division of the Academy of Management (2003), Best Presentation Prize of the Strategic Management Society Special Conference in Rio (2011), Best Paper Award of the Strategy Division (Cooperative Strategy Track) of the Academy of Management (2020), and the Jabuti Prize for the book Capitalism of Ties (2010). He has been a consultant to several firms and organizations such as OECD, IDB, and the World Bank.
Summary
Can privatization be used to supplant bad governments? Do private firms maximize profits at the expense of socially-oriented service attributes? Rather than proposing single solutions to complex social problems, Lazzarini offers a candid analysis of public and private organizations, their merits and flaws, and the conditions that make them work.
