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Incentives and models of governance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 May 2015

Gwyn Bevan
Gwyn Bevan*
Affiliation:
Department of Management, London School of Economics, London, UK
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*Correspondence to: Gwyn Bevan, Department of Management, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK. Email: R.G.Bevan@lse.ac.uk
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Abstract

This short commentary on Oliver’s review of incentives relates that review to four models of governance: Trust and Altruism (T&A), Choice and Competition (C&C), Naming and Shaming (N&S) and Targets and Terror (T&T).

Type
Special Section
Information
Health Economics, Policy and Law , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , July 2015 , pp. 345 - 350
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© Cambridge University Press 2015 

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