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The authors argue that resolution of the CEO selection and financial-contracting problems can accelerate efficiency gains realized by the enterprise.
Author : John S. Walker
Publisher : Lehigh University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 36,54 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780934223447
The authors argue that resolution of the CEO selection and financial-contracting problems can accelerate efficiency gains realized by the enterprise.
Author : John S. Walker
Publisher :
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 17,59 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Privatization
ISBN :
Author : John Vickers
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 22,91 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262720113
The process of selling assests and enterprises to the private sector raises questions about natural monopolies, the efficiency and equity of state-owned versus privately owned enterprises, and industrial policy. This comprehensive analysis of the British privatization program explores these questions both theoretically and empirically.
Author : Ira W. Lieberman
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 22,77 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 076231463X
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Author : Bernardo Bortolotti
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 20,10 MB
Release : 2004-03-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199249342
From 1997 to 2001, more than 4,000 privatization operations have been carried out in more than 100 countries, bringing in government revenues of over 1,362 billion dollars. The phenomenon, which grew exponentially at the end of the 1990s and then abruptly slowed down, had dramatic consequences on the performance of state-owned enterprises and a significant impact on industrialized countries, as well as emerging and less developed economies. Yet there have been surprisingly fewattempts to provide a systematic empirical account of the privatization process at the worldwide level.Why do governments privatize? Why do some countries accomplish large-scale privatization programmes, and others never privatize at all? Is privatization a trend or a cycle? Furthermore, how do governments privatize? Do governments really transfer ownership and control of state-owned enterprises or does private ownership tend to coexist with public control?This book provides some answers to these important questions trying to test research hypotheses set forth by the recent economic theory of privatization.Comprehensive cross-country empirical analyses carried out over a period of more than twenty years are used in the book to show that privatization has taken place all over the world, sometimes spontaneously, more often under the pressure of economic and budgetary constraints. Several of the goals of the privatization have been met, but despite proclamations and programmes, only a small minority of countries has carried out a genuine privatization process, completely transferring ownership ofstate-owned enterprises to the private sector. A lack of political will is to some extent at the root of this reluctance. However this reluctance can be traced back partly to structural factors that would make an orderly privatization difficult, such as the absence of developed capital markets,appropriate regulation, and suitable institutions.
Author : John R. Nellis
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 10,51 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821321812
Governance, as defined by the World Bank in its 1992 report, Governance and Development, is the manner in which power is exercised in the management of a country's economic and social resources for development. The report deemed it is within the Bank's mandate to focus on the following: -the process by which authority is exercised in the management of a country's economic and social resources -the capacity of governments to design, formulate, and implement policies and discharge functions. Also available: Governance: The World Bank's Experience (ISBN 0-8213-2804-2) Stock No. 12804.
Author : Graeme Hodge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,74 MB
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429966571
Contracting out public sector services and divesting public enterprises are reforms that have enjoyed widespread global popularity in recent years. Better services, lower prices and greater accountability are the promises made by politicians, senior executives, and investment companies when functions are moved from the public sector to private enterprise. But in Privatization, Graeme A. Hodge challenges these assumptions. Through an examination of hundreds of international studies on the performance of privatization activities, Hodge demonstrates that privatizing public services is often not the guaranteed panacea portrayed by its political supporters. Importantly, privatization activities can lead to modest gains, but there are also winners and losers in this reform. It therefore deserves far more care and balanced debate than it usually attracts.
Author : Werner Zvi Hirsch
Publisher : Institute of Industrial Relations UCLA
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 29,25 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Contracting out
ISBN :
Examines reasons for the current interest in privatization and describes the status of different forms of temporary privatization in a number of public services in the USA. Offers an analytical framework for making privatization decisions.
Author : Lester M. Salamon
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 15,1 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780877664543
Author : Herbert Brücker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,58 MB
Release : 2005-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135777438
This text gives an analysis of privatization and restructuring by the Treuhandanstalt in East Germany. It also addresses the theoretical and conceptual problems of large-scale privatization in the transformation process.