Table 6 Economic barriers identified by municipalities.
From: Drivers and barriers of intermunicipal cooperation in local service delivery
Economic barriers | Number (non-cooperating municipalities) | Mean rank (non-cooperating municipalities) | Number (cooperating municipalities) | Mean rank (cooperating municipalities) | Mann-Whitney U | p-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lack of finance | 101 | 53.83 | 15 | 89.97 | 285.500 | 0.000 |
Management and coordination reasons–coordination costs | 94 | 52.01 | 14 | 71.25 | 423.500 | 0.026 |
Lack of personnel | 97 | 51.13 | 14 | 89.71 | 525.000 | 0.207 |
Decreased flexibility in service delivery | 94 | 49.52 | 14 | 87.93 | 207.000 | 0.000 |
Decreased transparency | 94 | 54.21 | 14 | 56.46 | 190.000 | 0.000 |
Information asymmetry increasing transaction costs | 93 | 49.10 | 14 | 86.57 | 419.000 | 0.030 |
Difficulty in sharing responsibilities–resource differences | 91 | 47.90 | 14 | 86.14 | 195.000 | 0.000 |
Difficulty to coordinate | 93 | 50.88 | 14 | 74.71 | 173.000 | 0.000 |
Losing control over the service | 94 | 49.36 | 14 | 89.00 | 327.000 | 0.002 |
