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Showing 1 to 20 of 161 for “"Privatisation"”.
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Airport privatisation and performance
… comparing those subject to partial or full privatisation with those in public ownership. It is hypothesized that privatised airports operate more efficiently than others and that they are an attractive investment as compared to alternative capital projects. Partial factor productivity (PFP), …
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PRIVATISATION, RURAL RAILWAYS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
… separate, but interrelated, issues, namely rail privatisation and rural dependency on the availability of rail transport. The thesis was based on the proposition that rural accessibility permits the development and sustainability of the social and economic lives of a community and that this …
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Telekom Malaysia : privatisation and strategic management
… Malaysia (TM) in the preparation for and after privatisation of the entity.The thesis shows that in reality the Malaysian government has pursued policies contrary to its stated privatisation goals by denying independent decision making in TM and hence the evolution of strategic management …
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Privatisation et rationalité des gouvernements : Une étude exploratoire
L'objectif de cette recherche est d'explorer le type de rationalité révélé par les gouvernements à l'occasion de la vente des entreprises qu'ils ont décidé de privatiser. Selon le paradigme de la rationalité téléonomique, il existe des choix de modèle de rationalité : la rationalité classique et la …
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The privatisation and liberalisation of telecommunications in Bahrain.
Many countries have attempted telecommunications liberalization and privatization using different policy approaches, resulting in varying degrees and types of success. This thesis examines the impact and implications of telecommunications liberalization and privatization in the Kingdom of Bahrain. …
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State enterprise and privatisation in Zambia 1968-1998
In the 1980s and 1990s, privatisation has been widely adopted across the developing world and has reversed the previous trend towards the expansion of state enterprise. This thesis examines the establishment, operation and privatisation of the state enterprise sector in Zambia between 1968 and …
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Assessing police privatisation in the United Arab Emirates
The growth of private security companies and the privatisation of police is a development that has been witnessed around the world in both developing and developed nations. The rapid pace of transformation in policing in the UAE potentially poses severe risks to the future of policing. Different …
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Privatisation and public access to information in the united Kingdom
This thesis examines the relationship between privatisation and public access to official information in the United Kingdom. Through a combination of theoretical and empirical analysis, it addresses two main questions: (1) How does privatisation, broadly defined to include outsourcing, affect …
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The Socio-Economic Impact of Privatisation in Zambia: Experiences and Lessons
… (the then president) effort to embark on a privatisation programme (see Chapter 2).In 1991, when the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) took the reins of government, they were eager to implement and strictly adhere to aggressive structural adjustment policies designed by the …
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Privatisation and Management Accounting Changes (MACs) : a case study in Iran
… concerning the relationship between MAC and privatisation as an important evidence of environmental change. In particular, in the context of developing and less developed countries (LDCs) there is much less empirical evidence in this area of research and so far the majority of studies has …
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The international telecommunications sector : a financial investigation of post privatisation performance
… of this thesis is an investigation of the post-privatisation performance of the international telecoms sector. Firstly, the general hypothesis (1) of this thesis has been pursued, which states that the privatised telecoms companies perform differently from their non-privatised (private) …
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Privatisation in Malaysia with special reference to changes in accounting system
… constitutes an attempt to analyse the impact of privatisation upon an organisation. The literature on privatisation suggests that one aspect of the process is the creation of new organisational form. In particular, it is believed that the influence of accounting may increase with the introduction …
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Corporate governance challenges accompanying the privatisation of public education in Qatar
… the fact that governments globally have placed privatisation at the top of the policy agenda in recent years, there are some sectors that have experienced very little or limited privatisation, for example education. The purpose of this thesis is to give a critical account of the introduction and …
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The �silent� privatisation of urban public space in Cape Town, 1975 � 2004
… urban South Africa. This research shows that the privatisation of urban public space is not solely a postapartheid phenomenon. Closure legislation has been, and still is, used by citizens to remove urban space from the public realm through its privatisation. Closures are largely citizen-driven, …
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Local trade union responses in the context of public healthcare service privatisation
… ‘New Public Management’ (NPM) mechanisms such as privatisation, marketisation and decentralisation have been an integral part of healthcare reforms, aiming to improve efficiency and cut costs (Bach and Bordogna, 2011). In response, some trade unions have looked to influence the implementation of …
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Implications of restructuring and privatisation for competitiveness and perfomance:two Brazilian steel companies
The thesis examines the effects of the privatisation process on productivity, competitiveness and performance in two major Brazilian steel companies, which were privatised in between 1991 and 1993. The case study method was adopted in this research due to its strengths as a useful technique …
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The future of national flag carriers in developing countries : air Botswana's privatisation struggle
… For this reason, many states do not favour privatisation, even though the perception is that the airline industry is better handled by private businesses. The main conclusion of the study for Botswana is therefore that neither full state ownership nor full privatisation is the solution to …
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A new water law for Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: what role for privatisation?
… analytical studies on the question of whether privatisation of the water industry could provide a better water system to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), and whether such a system would be better able to satisfy the water requirement in terms of quality and quantity. Some other countries have …
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