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n the late 1990s, Knowledge Management (KM) and Communities of Practice (CoPs) seemed inseparable. CoPs appeared to offer the key to reversing the failure of some of the earlier technologically based attempts to manage knowledge. However, the original CoP concept was built around a very...
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This paper, a synthesis of salient findings of the authors’ book entitled “Investment Climate Around the World: Voices of the Firms from the World Business Environment Survey”, and based on a chapter in “Pathways Out of Poverty: Private Firms and Economic Mobility in Developing...
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The book encapsulates the ways and means of doing business with China, and the opportunities out there. It reveals how China has transformed itself for the investors by creating a friendly environment; but,nevertheless, cultural and social aspects must not be forgotten while dealing with them....
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This paper analyses the anti-corruption activities of 24 transition countries in the period 1999-2002. These activities are divided into omnibus anti-corruption programmes, legislative reform aimed at tackling corruption, and adherence to international anti-corruption conventions. The paper...
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The note documents and discusses the modalities and consequences of the phenomenon of siphoning profits of state enterprises for private uses by state enteprise managers and insiders in Bulgaria during the period of early transition.
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manufacturing sector after privatization. It starts with the argumentation that the most important actors in the post-privatization … ownership structure in the Czech Republic were investment privatization funds, followed by the state, and that the ‘rules of the … leads to the hypothesis that the concentration-restructuring function in the post- privatization Czech environment is …
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We use new firm-level data to examine the effects of spinoffs and privatization on corporate performance in a rapidly … spinoffs increase the firm’s profitability but do not alter its scale of operations, while the effect of privatization … consistent with tunneling (looting) by managers or (partial) owners. The effects of privatization are hence much less clear …
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In this paper we look at the specific features of the delayed privatization in Kosovo, emphasising in particular two … privatization in the early 1990s in a limited number of SOEs in the Gjakova region based on a survey of these enterprises, and iii …) the critical assessment of the privatization proposals and the challenges in continuing the ongoing privatization process …
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concentration and bidding competition decrease in the privatized sector may have outweighed eventual gains coming from privatization …. On the other hand, the threat that privatization may represent for public unit managers may have stimulated them to … recent privatization are associated with lower costs. Instead, old privatization is not associated with lower costs. …
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