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This accessible book aims to inform readers interested in assessing privatization and market development concepts on a … international team of contributors, the book traces how privatization concepts have grown in application, and how they have spread … global regulation of markets / George Gilligan -- Conclusions : spreading the privatization family business / Graeme Hodge …
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pt. 1. Market structure, corporate governance and innovation -- pt. 2. Privatization, liberalization and R&D activities …
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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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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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This important and well-researched book examines the challenges to private sector growth in twelve Middle East and North African (MENA) countries, assessing comparative performance against a number of indicators and focussing on the special role of SMEs and entrepreneurial activity
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The debate on whether high standards of labour market legislation affect economic growth and the rate of employment is topical and important. The contributors to this book address three main issues: * how Taiwan's labour market was able to work so well prior to 1996, maintaining full employment...
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Bernadette Power construct a broad overview of central research themes in the field, covering states being captured by …
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, privatization or re-regulation. This affects all traditional infrastructure sectors including communications, energy, transport and …
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Deregulation and its Discontents examines the different ways in which the issues related to deregulation and reregulation have been addressed in Asia. The role of government in business has gone through distinct, if overlapping, cycles: regulation, deregulation and reregulation. However, little...
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Worldwide, postal and delivery economics has attracted considerable interest. Numerous questions have arisen, including the role of regulation, funding the Universal Service Obligation, postal reform in Europe, Asia and North America, the future of national postal operators, demand and pricing...
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