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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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management continuity between ad hoc programmes by adopting the so‐called “privatization paradigm”. Develops a comparative … analysis based on the Bureau of Indian Affairs′ (USA) recent effort to assist American Indians start and maintain viable … administrators applied management models provided by privatization theory to the direction of their programmes.  …
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. Es erweist sich, dass die Divergenz in den Wachstumsraten der USA und der EU seit 1997 fast zur Gänze auf …
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. Eine Kapitaldeckung oder Teil-Privatisierung ist gesamtwirtschaftlich betrachtet kontraproduktiv. Hierdurch werden …
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the ten recently privatised regional water companies in the UK. Although privatization required the water plcs to … new private sector status, it was clear from the nature of their privatization that they would experience difficulties in … achieving this. Privatization did little to change their previous monopoly character, and this created discrepancy with the …
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Purpose – The paper sets out to examine the use of accounting as part of the privatization process of a national … railway in Canada. The argument is that proponents of the privatization used accounting strategically to justify and sustain … the privatization. Major societal events, such as the privatization of national assets, merit close scrutiny so that an …
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Purpose – Using the recent attempts by the Ghanaian Government to privatize its urban water services, this paper seeks to understand the role and functioning of accounting within the global move to “reinvent government.” Design/methodology/approach – Unlike the attempts made in other...
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senior management's narrative regarding the privatization of a major transportation enterprise, Canadian National Railway (CN … deployed to help sustain a rhetoric of post‐privatization success. The aptness (and the danger) of accounting language in … discourse in the aftermath of a privatization. A narrative perspective is adopted, in which an imagined future post‐privatization …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to shed light on accounting's role in bringing about a pension reform project in Chile under the authoritarian regime of Augusto Pinochet. The paper aims to reveal the specific role that the pension reform played in the regime's broader ideological goals,...
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Purpose – The paper aims to examine the role, funding and status of Network Rail, a very significant example of New Labour's attempt to operationalise the “third way”. The analysis of Network Rail is used to critique the “third way” approach to policy‐making in Britain....
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