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"The Make-or-Buy Decision: The Organization of U.S. Campus Plant Operations"
Author: Getz, Malcolm, Jon M. Gullette, Diane E. Kilpatrick, and John J. Siegfried
Published In: Facilities Manager
Date: Spring 1994

Discusses the results of a survey of 591 colleges and universities about the organization and administration of their auxiliary services.  Focuses on the administrative area responsible for plant services, the frequency of collective-bargaining agreements covering various facilites' employees, and the propensity to self-operate various plant operations services.  Includes charts and sidebars on sources of unions, pointers on contracting, and pointers on self-operation.


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