The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the relationship between ownership identity and the performance … employing various empirical methods, we find robust support for the inferior performance of government enterprises over … privatization could improve the performance of public firms. However, a study over a longer period is needed before these results …

Purpose: The main objective of the study was to investigate how corporate governance affects the performance of state …. Findings/results: The findings show that corporate governance characteristics affect SOE performance in a least developed … economy. The performance of SOEs is influenced favourably by board structures, director tenure, reduced government ownership …

governance variables. Based on these findings and citing country examples, we also illustrate that weak SOE performance may have …