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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 authors explore these reforms along with the problems of China's state … China's WTO commitments. Drawing on wide-ranging case studies of enterprise reform, Becky Chiu and Mervyn Lewis combine …
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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 innovation in the Chinese telecommunications industry -- 5. China … demonstrate the innovation process of SOEs, the unique innovation model of China, as well as its advantages and disadvantages …
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China in the Global Economy focuses on the theme of twin transitions occurring in the Chinese economy: the transition …. China's exporters face unprecedented competition in the world market and the flow of foreign direct investment has fallen …
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-Yun Ma argues that China's privatization is not based on any grand blueprint; rather, it is privatization by "groping for … participation in China's privatization and the role of the state -- 6. China's privatization through listing state enterprises in …Since the 1980s, there has been a global wave of transfer of state assets to private hands. China is a relatively late …
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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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, privatization or re-regulation. This affects all traditional infrastructure sectors including communications, energy, transport and …
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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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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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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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