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A meta-analysis of the impact of privatization on firm performance

Bachiller, Patricia - In: Management Decision 55 (2017) 1, pp. 178-202

Purpose Despite the vast literature on privatization, the relationship between change of ownership and performance is … privatization and the level of development of the country of privatized companies. Findings The findings indicate that companies … voucher privatization, and do not support the common-place assumption that privatization in developing countries does not …

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Privatizing the courts ‐ a quality assurance problem

Groocock, John - In: The TQM Magazine 8 (1996) 6, pp. 6-10

Reports that English courts are in disarray because of gross inefficiency and excessive costs. Proposes that, it would be easier to privatize the courts, which could be broken up into small, fully competitive units, than the already privatized capital‐intensive utilities. Illustrates how this...

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Performance Improvement Intervention: Privatized and Public Sector Organizations

Chaston, Ian - In: Leadership & Organization Development Journal 14 (1993) 1, pp. 4-8

United Kingdom employers in recently privatized and public sector organizations are relying heavily on management training as an intervention mechanism to increase employee productivity. A survey of south‐west organizations confirmed this increase in training activity. Managers, however, did...

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The Privatization of Public Streets and Urban Spaces in Malaysia

Tedong, Peter Aning; Azriyati, Wan Nor; Aziz, Wan Abd; … - In: Open House International 43 (2018) 3, pp. 110-116

diversity and accessibility in urban residential areas. However, the emerging trends of the privatization of public streets and … the privatization of public streets and open spaces in Malaysia. While planners described Greater Klang Valley as a … diverse city in Malaysia, they sometimes tolerated the privatization of public streets and open spaces through neoliberal …

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Strategies for performance improvement in the Chinese chemical industry

Cheng, Jeremy; Bennett, David - In: Journal of Technology Management in China 1 (2006) 2, pp. 190-207

Purpose – This paper sets out to explore the proposition that building competences is more effective than privatisation and restructuring to improve performance in the Chinese chemical industry. Design/methodology/approach – Case study research has been undertaken in the Chinese chemical...

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Reading notes on property rights and institutions

Berge, Erling - 2024

institutional change in the welfare state * On the nature of welfare goods * Privatization and the nature of welfare goods * On the …

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Self-serving performance attributions in the letters to shareholders : a longitudinal case study

Săndulescu, Maria-Silvia - In: Journal of accounting & management information systems … 18 (2019) 2, pp. 283-301

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Public or private job placement services — Are private ones more effective?

Stephan, Gesine - In: IZA World of Labor (2024)

Contracting out job placement services might save costs and provide a service capacity buffer in times of increasing unemployment. However, state agencies must be able to ensure a suitable balance between services and quality, and to carefully monitor and evaluate private provider outcomes....

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More debtfare than healthcare : business as usual in the Multilateral Development Banks' COVID-19 response in India

Engel, Susan; Pedersen, David - In: Review of international political economy 31 (2024) 2, pp. 487-510

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