Trevor L. Brown

Business, Management and Accounting · The Ohio State University

Established · publishing since 1969

Public Procurement and Policy Public-Private Partnership Projects Public Policy and Administration Research Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management Local Government Finance and Decentralization

Publications

Citations

4,157

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

Publishing since 1969

Research summary

AI-generated

Trevor L. Brown studies how governments buy goods and services from private businesses, focusing on the hidden costs and management challenges involved in public sector contracting. His work often uses surveys and experiments to compare how selling to governments differs from selling to other businesses, and to identify strategies for managing complex contracts more effectively.

Public procurement and contractingTransaction costs in government-business dealsPublic-private partnershipsContract management strategyPublic administration research methods

Publication output has been modest and somewhat irregular over the last decade, with a peak in 2018, a gap in 2023, and a slight uptick in 2024-2025.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 0.8/year recently

Recent publications

Human Resources for Public Sector Contracting: An Education and Training Perspective for Formal and Relational Management
International Journal of Commerce and Contracting · 2025
A Clinical Perspective on Neurofeedback Integrated With Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
NeuroRegulation · 2025
Same product, different price: Experimental evidence on the transaction cost expenditures of selling to governments and firms
Public Administration Review · 2022
Businesses' transaction costs when contracting with governments: the impact of product complexity and public contract management experience
International Public Management Journal · 2021
Negotiations 1964–73
2021
Businesses' Transaction Cost Spending Is Higher When Selling to Governments: Evidence from an Experiment in Denmark
RUCforsk (Roskilde University) · 2020
Measuring and Managing Ex Ante Transaction Costs in Public Sector Contracting
Public Administration Review · 2019
Complex Contracting: Management Challenges and Solutions
Public Administration Review · 2018
The impact of strategy on public sector set-aside programs: the case of the state of Ohio
Journal of Public Procurement · 2018
Institutional Context and Transaction Costs: Differences in Transaction Cost Expenditures When Selling to Governments and Businesses
RUCforsk (Roskilde University) · 2018
Does Public Sector Contracting Have Higher Transaction Costs? Evidence from Survey Experiments with Contractors
2018 APPAM Fall Research Conference: <i>Evidence for Action: Encouraging Innovation and Improvement</i> · 2018
Managing Public Service Contracts: Aligning Values, Institutions, and Markets*
2017
The Madness of Crowds
Figshare · 2016

Publishes in

Public Administration Review×3
RUCforsk (Roskilde University)×2
Journal of Public Procurement×1
The Theory and Practice of Legislation×1
International Public Management Journal×1

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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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