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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the privatisation process and its impact on organisational change in the electricity industry in the Gambia. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative methodology was used for the study as qualitative techniques make use of a holistic...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between privatization of state‐owned enterprises … (SOEs), organizational change and performance. It explores the processes by which privatization affects corporate … expected to change. The evidence suggested that privatization brought about important alignments among the organization's goals …
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Purpose – The review of contemporary organisational change theories identified one theory which seemed relevant to explaining the organisational change phenomenon in public enterprises – Van de Ven and Poole’s (1995) Evolutionary Change Theory (ECT). However, further review of the...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the literature about the commercial involvement in open source software, levels of this involvement and consequences of attempting to mix various logics of action. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses the case study approach...
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This paper explores the regulatory process of UK privatised utilities as manifest in the periodic review of prices. Two separate review processes are identified, operating concurrently – a covert dialogue between the regulator and the regulated and an overt dialogue taking place in the public...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the variance of post‐privatization performance outcomes by three … regression models were used for the study to link the likelihood of performance improvements after privatization with a set of …, including market openness, post‐privatization involvement of government and corporate reforms prior to privatization, in the …
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Discusses the issue of privatization and its relationship with the government. Answers the question of who should … privatization process in the United States and European countries. Finally explains why politicians do not resort to more private …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze certain organizational changes that occur after privatization. More … study approach. A multiple case study enables the comparison of pre- and post-privatization periods in five Spanish … not suffer from variation after privatization. Second, the interests of the firms’ new ownership have an impact on firm …
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to make the case, firstly, that democratic leadership, referred to as “leaderful practice,” should be the fundamental form of leadership that characterizes participatory organizational change. The parties affected by change are those engaged who seek to...
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