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Monitoring the governance of state-owned enterprises : assessing the impact of corporate governance reforms in Brazil
Coelho, Daphne; Teodorovicz, Thomaz; Fritscher, André … - 2024
State-owned enterprises (SOEs) are often justified for correcting market failures, providing essential public services, and fulfilling social objectives. Yet, SOEs face unique governance challenges as agency conflicts usually increase with state ownership. This paper examines Brazil's efforts to...
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Impact of Disasters and Disaster Risk Management in Singapore : A Case Study of Singapore Experience in Fighting the SARS Epidemic
Lai, Allen Yuhung; Tan, Seck - 2012
Singapore is vulnerable to both natural and man-made disasters alongside its remarkable economic growth. One of the … eventually contained through a series of risk mitigating measures introduced by the Singapore government. This would not be … possible without the engagement and responsiveness of the general public. This chapter begins with a description of Singapore …
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Rekindling governments from within : getting public sector elite officials to support government reform in Brazil
Pinhanez, Monica - 2010
This paper shows how an elite cadre of public sector officials played a key role in the success of administrative reforms in Brazil's state tax administration bureaus in the 1990s. The success of the reforms strengthened public sector bureaucracies and institutions at all government levels,...
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Politically Connected Governments
Cuny, Christine - 2020
This paper examines the consequences of powerful political connections for local governments. We find that governments located within the constituencies of, and thus connected to, powerful congressional members reduce their stewardship over public resources. Using plausibly-exogenous declines in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834757
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Monitoring the Monitors : Auditors, Corporate Theft, and Corruption
Mironov, Maxim - 2019
Using a unique database of banking transactions, I examine the relationship between auditing and income diversion in a sample of 25,824 companies. In contrast to other studies, my methodology enables me to accurately measure corporate theft and observe the fees charged by auditors, which are not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868952
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Politically Connected Governments
Cuny, Christine - 2020
This paper examines the consequences of powerful political connections for local governments. We find that governments located within the constituencies of, and thus connected to, powerful congressional members reduce their stewardship over public resources. Using plausibly-exogenous declines in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012852380
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Considering Convergence of Corporate Governance in State-Owned Enterprises : a Case study of The Philippines and the OECD Guidelines on SOE Corporate Governance
Sheehy, Benedict; Madrid, Kristoffer Gabriel - 2021
This article investigates an under researched area: corporate governance in state owned enterprises. State owned enterprises form a significant part of the economy in many countries and particularly so in Asia. Examining the case of the Philippines, the article answers three core questions:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251991
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Politically Connected Governments
Cuny, Christine; Kim, Jungbae; Mehta, Mihir N. - 2021
This paper examines the consequences of powerful political connections for local governments. We find that governments located within the constituencies of, and thus connected to, powerful congressional members reduce their stewardship over public resources. Using plausibly exogenous declines in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245217
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Social Responsibility and Consensus Orientation in Public Governance : a Content Analysis
Tomaževič, Nina - 2020
Over the past two decades, social responsibility (SR) has become a key principle of many private sector entities that aim for business excellence. Similarly, in the public sector, the latest public governance models (PGMs) are based on the selected public governance principles (e.g. consensus...
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Performance management and monitoring of internal audit for the public sector in Romania
Dascălu, Elena Doina; Marcu, Nicu; Hurjui, Ioan - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 18 (2016) 43, pp. 691-705
Performance management is an on-going process, which has an essential component part, performance measurement, which involves the identification, supervision and communication of performance results, through the relation to a set of performance indicators. Based on the assessment results,...
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