State‐Industry interface has always been a subject of debate because the role of the state in relation to industry depends on the economic philosophy adopted by a country. The two extreme economic philosophies, capitalism and socialism, have their own limitations. Once Winston Churchill...

Compares managerial values, in terms of loyalty, boss, money, big companies, profit, work, job freedom, and company rules, across different sectors of enterprise by questionnaire survey: 232. Iraqi managers participated in the study. MANOVA and ANOVA tests revealed some differences among...

This study, completed in 1990 shortly before the Iraqi invasion, analyses some of the organizational and psychological determinants of employee turnover in Kuwait. The study is based on a sample size of 190 full‐time employees taken from governmental, private and shared sector organizations. A...

There is no general theory of public enterprise (PE), and the miscellany of separate theorizations on the subject has created a conceptual quagmire. Advances some hypotheses gleaned from the literature on the PE concerning confusion in the PE′s objective function, investment tendencies and...

Provides a framework for analysing and accomplishing programme objectives, both in the public and private sectors. The framework provokes analysis beginning from what is the business of an agency to determining the appropriate mix of strategies for accomplishing programme objectives. The...

With public services operating as monopolies, dissatisfied users cannot exit from the relation without changing patronage. Apart from exit from the region, voicing their dissatisfaction in order to influence the service offer becomes the only alternative. Industries and companies may be...

Purpose – The Egyptian banking sector has acted as an arena for multiple alliances, some of which bred crony capitalism and others acted as growth alliances. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of private sector advocacy in the Egyptian banking sector on macroeconomic...

Discusses housing reform and its impact on the governance of housing in China. The roles of the state and work units have been shifted from providers to enablers in the market of housing supply after the introduction of privatisation and the market mechanism. However, the role of work units in...

Whilst organisational change appears to be happening with increasing frequency and magnitude in both the public and private sectors, most of the major studies of change focus on the private sector and tend to derive their approaches to change from that sector. From a review of the literature, it...