The paper looks at the India's privatization experiment which began in the early 1990s. The data used for this study covers a period of over seventeen years, 1991/92-2006/07. A regression model is constructed using the neoclassical growth model with the objective to assess as to whether or not...

This article examines the impact of privatisation on labour in Ethiopia. In the wake of privatisation, which was implemented in 1994-95 EFY (Ethiopian Fiscal Year), about 220 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) were sold out over the study period. These constituted about 60% of the total SOEs. The...

This article examines the extent of disruptions in human resource practices of agile firms, and articulates how the human resource practices are disrupted owing to technology and culture forced. Human resources practices is compelled to adapt to the new design and style of functioning whereby...

This paper examines various causes for privatisation in India. Five major dimensions, which are changes in International and domestic politics, Performance of Public Sector Undertakings, Magnitude of fiscal compulsion and external debt, External pressure of the donors and Inherent efficiency of...

This paper examines the impact of privatisation on the productivity, profitability and the major management issues of the privatised enterprises in Ethiopia. Data ranging between 1990 and 2004 were collected from forty five enterprises in order to examine the performance of the privatised...