This paper examines the impact of corporate governance on the performance of 450 privatized firms in Vietnam. To study the effect of changes in management and the role of state ownership on the performance of privatized firms, we utilize a panel of 450 Vietnamese firms privatized over the...

L'article met en relief la passivité des cadres dirigeants du ministère de l'Équipement face à la décentralisation de 1981-2 et leurs raisons. Il détaille les cadres cognitifs dominants dans les services extérieurs. Il resitue les transferts de compétence et les adaptations dans une...

In this paper we review contracting issues raised by a government’s decision to contract out activities linked to public services, as well as highlighting potential future research avenues. We first review the different kinds of contracting arrangements and public private partnerships used by...

Privatization is an old phenomenon but with important changes for the ten last years. According to the movement observed in practice, since the end of the nineties, researches are focused on privatizations in emergent countries and (or) outgoing of a planned and centralized economy....

L'implantation du Lean à l'hôpital suscite des débats sur les conséquences de cette nouvelle forme d'organisation du travail pour les professionnels qui y travaillent. L'objectif de cet article est d'en rendre compte de manière théorique et pratique. Après avoir défini les principes du...

Is an implementation of a management control system in a public company a lever of change ? A case study was carried out with the French National Railway Company between 1996 and 1998. The management control adapts to the strategic and structural change. The objectives are to decentralize the...

Most of the research work concerning the French tableau de bord tends to locate its birth in industrial companies with engineers as lead roles and the State as supporting role (Lebas, 1996). Yet, a study in the Crédit Lyonnais archives shows that banks are not unequipped with this kind of...