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Privatizing local authority service in Ireland

Reeves, Eoin - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 8 (1995) 4, pp. 48-58

Presents the first survey evidence of privatization of local authority services in the Republic of Ireland. The survey … privatization such as the UK, this form of privatization has evolved in Ireland without any governmental edicts or policy guidelines …. The consequence of such a development is the evolution of an array of privatization arrangements which have been …

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Public and private organizations in Latin America: a comparison of reward preferences

Snyder, Monteze M.; Osland, Joyce - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 9 (1996) 2, pp. 15-27

important implications for Civil Service reform and development of incentive systems for privatization strategies. …

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Privatization: a review of policy and implementation in selected Arab countries

Younis, Talib - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 9 (1996) 3, pp. 18-25

Reviews privatization in the Middle East, concentrating primarily on Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco. Traces the (uncertain … bodies, such as the IMF, as well as internal obstructions to privatization ‐ legal frameworks, political uncertainties, the … weakness of local entrepreneurial cultures and so on. Shows that privatization has been a limited undertaking only, noting that …

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The UK’s privatized utilities experience: why the regulators are under attack

Nwankwo, Sonny; Richardson, Bill - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 9 (1996) 3, pp. 26-39

As demand mounts for a review of the UK’s privatized utilities regulatory system, focuses on an increasing public phenomenon ‐ that of conflict between regulators and regulatees. Identifies the factors contributing to the difficulties which the regulators face in carrying out their roles....

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An alternative to privatization: the listing of H‐shares in Hong Kong

Lin Chan, Hing - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 9 (1996) 3, pp. 40-50

Details how, in a bid to invigorate its state‐owned enterprises, the Chinese government allows some of its large state‐owned enterprises to list on the stock exchanges of Hong Kong and New York. Reports that, although at the beginning the stocks were very well received, the H‐share prices...

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The commercialization of the Australian public service and the accountability of government

Dixon, John; Kouzmin, Alexander; Korac‐Kakabadse, Nada - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 9 (1996) 5/6, pp. 23-36

States the Australian Public Service (APS) has been engaged in a comprehensive reform process for more than 20 years. A significant dimension of this reform process has been commercialization. With this growing commercialization, the relationship between civil servants, as APS managers, and...

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Structural adjustment and tripartite consultation

Trebilcock, Anne - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 9 (1996) 1, pp. 5-16

Examines the effects of economic structural adjustment programmes on employers and workers. Advocates a tripartite consultation approach whereby workers’ and employers’ representatives are encouraged to participate alongside governments in economic and social policy formulation, from an...

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Privatizing road maintenance in developing countries

Larcher, Paul - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 11 (1998) 2/3, pp. 116-129

Over the past decade, there has been growing international interest in utilising private contractors to improve efficiency and reduce costs of road maintenance. In developing countries the existing private contracting sector is often too weak to take on this work. Accordingly projects to foster...

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Privatization of state enterprise: policy drivers and lessons learned

Wayne Taylor, D.; Warrack, Allan A. - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 11 (1998) 7, pp. 524-535

additional choice exists of the privatization of state enterprises. Canada is examined as a country in the process of switching …/or financing were all reasons for creating state enterprise ‐ financing is the most prevalent driver of privatization. …

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The Australian experience: managing a non‐metropolitan urban water utility ‐ paradigm shifting towards a new mindset

Sadler, Robert - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 11 (1998) 7, pp. 596-610

This paper examines the operating environment of non‐metropolitan urban water authorities in Victoria, Australia. It analyses the policy framework within which the industry operates and demonstrates that this framework generates inconsistencies between central agency driven economic outcomes...

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