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Off the Rails: Is State Ownership Bad for Productivity?
Bogart, Dan; Chaudhary, Latika - Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine - 2013
The performance of Indian railways in the nineteenth century provides a great context to study the effects of state … the colonial Government of India purchased a majority ownership stake in private railways at predetermined dates set by … the Government of India maintained productivity when it became the owner of railways. Government ownership influenced …
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Political considerations in the decision of Chinese SOEs to list in Hong Kong
Hung, Mingyi; Wong, T.J.; Zhang, Tianyu - In: Journal of Accounting and Economics 53 (2012) 1, pp. 435-449
-overseas listing performance is worse than that of non-connected firms. This evidence suggests that connected firms' managers list …
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Legal Corruption, Politically Connected Corporate Governance and Firm Performance
Domadenik, Polona; Prašnikar, Janez; Svejnar, Jan - 2014
on performance. We test this prediction on an almost complete population of Slovenian joint stock companies with 100 or …
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Legal corruption, politically connected corporate governance and firm performance
Domadenik, Polona; Prašnikar, Janez; Švejnar, Jan - 2014
on performance. We test this prediction on an almost complete population of Slovenian joint stock companies with 100 or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010381906
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Legal Corruption, Politically Connected Corporate Governance and Firm Performance
Domadenik, Polona; Prašnikar, Janez; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
on performance. We test this prediction on an almost complete population of Slovenian joint stock companies with 100 or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884312
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Disinvestment, lending relationships and executive compensation: Evidence from the Indian experience
Ghosh, Saibal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The analysis employs data on federal Government-owned public enterprises (PSEs) since the 1980s that encompasses the partial privatization program to examine the likelihood of privatization. The results indicate that employment-intensive, high-paying but less profitable firms are more likely to...
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Why Privatize? The Decline of Public Ownership in India and its Impact on Industrial Performance
Majumdar, Sumit K. - 2006
of India, albeit at an aggregate level, with the findings having immediate salience and applicability to current concerns …. Privatization in a significant way has not taken place in India; nevertheless, the boundaries of the state as an industrial … participant have shrunk significantly as a result of the growth of private entrepreneurship in India. The numbers of private …
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Getting Rid of Organizational Legacy - the Costs of Restructuring Czech Agricultural Production
Brem, Markus - 2006
Agricultural production in transition countries has been vigorously restructured in the 1990s. Whereas in market economies agriculture is mainly organized in individual farms decreasing in number, in post-socialist Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) the number of organizations engaged...
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Organizational Change in Agricultural Transition - Mechanisms of Restructuring Socialist Large-Scale Farms
Brem, Markus - 2015
This article seeks to contribute to our understanding of farm restructuring in transition by asking for driving forces behind organizational change in agriculture. It focuses on the stakeholders' trade-off between internal transaction costs vs. switching costs. The article, then, introduces...
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Jurnalistii si factorul politic in anul 2004
Branea, Silvia; Marinescu, Valentina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This study attempts to identify some characteristics of the relationship between journalists and politicians. The methodology of the research is based on the analysis of responses to interviews in depth applied to a sample of 50 print and audiovisual journalists from Bucharest, Suceava, Pitesti,...
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