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Krasny, Tomas - In: International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management 20 (1992) 6

Reviews the nature of retailing in Czechoslovakia today and seeks to explain the reasons for its present unsatisfactory state. Forty years of central planning removed the developed retail structures which existed in market‐oriented Czechoslovakia between World War I and World War II and...

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Public pension privatization

Dixon, John; Hyde, Mark - In: International Journal of Social Economics 30 (2003) 5, pp. 633-650

Although neo‐classical economics has undoubtedly driven the global pension privatization reform agenda, it does not … have adopted three reform approaches to public pension privatization. All are consistent with values of community …

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A phenomenological conception of private sector responsibility in socioeconomic development

Silvia, Bayu; Alam Choudhury, Masudul - In: International Journal of Social Economics 33 (2006) 12, pp. 796-807

Purpose – Aims to methodologically explain a phenomenological model with empirical contents for modelling ethics in socioeconomic development. Addresses a circular causality between state variables and policy variables for the case of socioeconomic development of Indonesia with ethics and...

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A comparative analysis of mandated private pension arrangements

Hyde, Mark; Dixon, John - In: International Journal of Social Economics 35 (2008) 1/2, pp. 49-62

Purpose – According to one influential set of arguments, the privatization of public pensions has been informed by … cohesion. The paper aims to take issue with this negative characterization of pensions privatization. Design … – Collective responsibility for retirement may be pursued through distinctive forms of privatization. Originality/value – In …

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Triumphant capitalism and the future of human, social and economic progress in the post‐Cold War era

Ukpere, Wilfred I.; Slabbert, Andre D. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 35 (2008) 6, pp. 417-422

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to show that there could still be the possibility of a complementary relationship between capitalism and socialism (effective state), so that a higher human, social and economic order is realised. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a...

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Social economy and social responsibility: alternatives to global anarchy of neoliberalism?

Golob, Urša; Podnar, Klement; Lah, Marko - In: International Journal of Social Economics 36 (2009) 5, pp. 626-640

Purpose – This paper aims to point out a way to overcome the circumstances that arose out of the global neoliberal system. It is argued that this is possible when all relevant actors in society cooperate and that a change in a way of thinking in the private sector needs to come from within....

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A Comparison of Privatization in Capitalist and Socialist Countries

Cameron, Colleen W. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 19 (1992) 6, pp. 55-60

predominantly market economies – for comparative analyses of socioeconomic‐political characteristics prior to privatization. Purpose … privatization. Constructs from a common set of factors descriptive of all the economies in the sample prior to initiation of … privatization, a general model of preconditions for privatization. Results of limited testing appeared to lend credence to the model. …

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Institutional Development in a Transition Economy: The Case of Poland

Giffin, Phillip E. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 21 (1994) 7, pp. 35-55

process of privatization, citing the primary institutional shortcomings. Also examines governmental structural problems in …

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On “small” privatization in the Russian Federation (1992 to first quarter of 1993)

Raiklin, Ernest - In: International Journal of Social Economics 22 (1995) 1, pp. 56-60

Discusses the privatization of state enterprises in the Russian Federation since 1992. The enterprises scheduled to be … and services. This was called “small” privatization. Figure show Figure this process has been very slow and only certain …

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Test evidence for the OECD countries, 1965‐85

Fowler, Paul C.; Richards, Donald G. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 22 (1995) 3, pp. 11-23

Examines empirically the proposition that a large public enterprise sector for an economy acts as an obstacle to a healthy rate of economic growth. The empirical analysis concentrates on the experience of the OECD countries for the years 1965‐85. Single and multiple equation‐models of...

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