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Reforming China's state-owned enterprises and banks

Lewis, Mervyn (contributor) - 2006

This book's starting point is that after two decades of experiments, during which other transition economies have effectively privatised all of their former state enterprises, China is still endeavouring to find a way to reinvent and re-engineer its own state-owned economic establishments. The...

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Catch-up and radical innovation in Chinese state-owned enterprises : exploring large infrastructure projects

Liu, Xielin; Wang, Xiao; Hu, Yimei - 2021

Contents: Preface -- 1. State-owned enterprise, government, and the innovation ecosystem -- 2. Formation of the dual innovation systems in China -- 3. State Grid and user-driven innovation: the case of ultra-high voltage power transmission -- 4. TD-SCDMA, LTE-TDD, and China Mobile: catch-up and...

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Free to fail : creative destruction revisited

Mandele, Hugh C. van der - 2013

1. Introduction -- 2. Key concepts -- 3. The historic debate -- 4. Profit maximization is only part of the answer -- 5. Organizational mortality and its fruits -- 6. Causes of organizational failure -- 7. Uncontrollability -- 8. Empirical evidence -- 9. The soft constraint syndrome -- 10. When...

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Public enterprise revisited : a closer look at the 1954-79 UK labour productivity record

Iordanoglou, Chrisafis H. - 2001

The book compares the 1954-79 labour productivity record of 5 expanding public sector industries to that of 24 expanding, capital intensive, mass-production industries in the British private sector. The author shows that the public sector industries' labour productivity growth was significantly...

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China in the global economy

Lloyd, Peter J. (contributor); Zhang, Xiaoguang (contributor) - 2000

China in the Global Economy focuses on the theme of twin transitions occurring in the Chinese economy: the transition from a centrally planned economic system to a market oriented one, and from an agrarian to a modern industrialised society. China's exporters face unprecedented competition in...

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The governance of network industries : institutions, technology and policy in reregulated infrastructures

Groenewegen, John (contributor); … - 2009

, privatization or re-regulation. This affects all traditional infrastructure sectors including communications, energy, transport and …

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The German state banks : global players in the international financial markets

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1999

The German state banks - or Landesbanks - are not only some of the largest banks in Germany but are also a dominant force in the international banking sector. These state-owned banks enjoy special privileges and government support which have made them major players in the global arena of banking...

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The governance of privatization funds : experiences of the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovenia

Estrin, Saul (ed.); Simoneti, Marko (ed.); … - 1999

Privatization investment funds are the key feature of mass privatization programmes in transitional economies. This … book offers a thorough survey of mass privatization programmes in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia, supported with … extensive empirical analysis. The study of 'top-down' privatization funds in Poland and 'bottom-up' funds in the Czech Republic …

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Water management in the 21st century : the allocation imperative

Lee, Terence R. - 1999

The challenge to manage the allocation of water efficiently and equably will become a dominant theme of the new millennium. At a time when the cost of obtaining fresh water is rising throughout the globe, Terence Lee analyses the means for establishing and operating effective water markets. He...

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The economics of German unification : an introduction

Lange, Thomas; Pugh, Geoff - 1998

privatization * labour market and industrial policy, including an analysis of wage restraint and cost reduction * the prospects for …

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