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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"State-owned enterprise"”.
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An Assessment of Corporate Governance Practices: A Case Study of Kuwait's State-Owned Enterprise
… investigates the governance practices of a state-owned enterprise (SOE) within a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) economy, with particular attention to the challenges of aligning such practices with international standards. The study evaluates levels of transparency, accountability, and …
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The role of human resource management in creating competitive advantage for a selected South African state-owned enterprise
A thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN MANAGEMENT SCIENCES: Human Resource Management, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2021.
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The performance of non-core property assets held by a state owned enterprise: a case study of Transnet
This research looks at Transnet a State owned Enterprise with a key focus on how it manages its non-core property assets that are currently highly dilapidated and in a poor state of repair with resultant sub-optimal returns being derived. The non-core property portfolio of Transnet is immediately …
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Factors to be considered in the adoption of the matrix management organisation structure within a state-owned enterprise
… matrix management organization structure within State-Owned Enterprises. It also investigated how the employees understand the project matrix management organization structure and its application, how they observe it to be and whether their misunderstanding of their roles in the structure will …
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The contract management responsibility system in China : an institutional interpretation
Thesis is about the enterprise reform in China in general, and the Contract Management Responsibility System (the CMRS) in particular. The latter is a new institutional arrangement to deal with the relation between the government and the state-owned enterprise which has always been at the centre of …
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Downsizing: Personnel Reductions at the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly, 1915-1939
… inquiry. This study investigates how a state-owned enterprise, the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly, reduced its labour inputs because of changed consumer preferences and mechanization in the 1920s and 1930s. By combining qualitative and quantitative evidence, the study addresses questions about …
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The Challenges of China's Economic Reform: State Enterprise Reform and Financial Liberalization
This thesis examines China's state-owned enterprise reform and financial reform in the last two decades. I characterize the progress of China's state-owned enterprises reform in two areas: privatization of small SOEs and mass layoffs. I argue that privatization rests on the political economy of …
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Innovations in municipal service delivery : the case of Vietnam's Haiphong Water Supply Company
This thesis describes a state owned municipal water supply service company, the Haiphong Water Supply Company (HPWSCo), that improved its service delivery and successfully transformed itself into a profit making utility with metered consumers willing to pay for improved service. The thesis examines …
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Explaining the behavior of state-owned enterprises : Mexico's Pemex in comparative perspective
… wave of privatization of the 1980s and 1990s, state ownership of enterprise remains a very important part of the political economies of both developing and industrialized nations. The conventional wisdom in industrial organization states that public enterprises are inefficient; nevertheless, it …
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Women, the household economy and the informal sector in Hanoi
… unemployment resulting from cuts in subsidies to state-owned enterprise has resulted in a blossoming of the informal sector, and a revival of this 'traditional’ occupation for women. This revival has taken place with the tacit, sometimes outright encouragement of the government, which looks to the …
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Assessing the long-term attractiveness of mining a commodity based on the structure of its industry
… the size of the reserves pool, or the share of state-owned enterprise. The first approach was based on a microeconomics model of cost curve updates and led us to developing the Cost curve model. The second one is based on industry expertise and on intuitive, logical and transparent ways to …
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An exploration into senior managers' perceptions of strategic management. The case of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) in Libya.
… for reflecting the Libyan NOC as an example of a state-owned enterprise in Karami¿s model were to include Board effectiveness as the first step, to add medium-term objectives and to include social responsibility in environmental scanning under external factors.
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The role of venture capital in China's technology entrepreneurship development
… government funds, government leveraged funds, State Owned Enterprise (SOE) funds, and foreign funds, are identified by their sources of funding. Four venture capital operations, NewMargin, Business Incubator of Zhongguancun Haidian Science Park, Legend Capital, and IDG Technology Venture are …
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Corporate social responsibility in all sectors of the economy: towards responsible macrobehaviour
… or departments of the central government to state or regional and local government. Public administration also includes the judicial and the services provided by the public sector with their own personnel, such as health care and schools. State owned enterprise (SOE) is of course included in …
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Encountering 'Sainaman': Friction at a Papua New Guinea Mining Contact Zone
… mining project that is majority-run by a Chinese state-owned enterprise (SOE). Before the Ramu Nickel Cobalt Project's development and operation, PNG's mineral resource extraction projects had been operated exclusively by Western mining companies. Unlike previous PNG mining projects where locals …
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Encountering 'Sainaman': Friction at a Papua New Guinea Mining Contact Zone
… mining project that is majority-run by a Chinese state-owned enterprise (SOE). Before the Ramu Nickel Cobalt Project's development and operation, PNG's mineral resource extraction projects had been operated exclusively by Western mining companies. Unlike previous PNG mining projects where locals …
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Usage of Twitter by state-owned enterprises to communicate with customers: A case of Transnet South Africa
… impact on the efficiency and performance of state-owned enterprises, which are often plagued by information irregularities that compromise information disclosure and lower the standards of accountability within the state-owned enterprises. Without social media, customers are often unable to …
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Privatized statism and ethnic capitalism in Malaysia
Theories of the developmental state assume astute bureaucratic interventionism protected from organized societal interests by authoritarian regimes; close bureaucracy-business ties supposedly facilitate prescient policy-making. In Malaysia, the bureaucracy did feature prominently in developmental …
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Building China's high-tech telecom equipment industry : a study of strategies in technology acquisition for competitive advantage
… their domestic market. Nevertheless, Chinese enterprises have recently begun producing high-end equipment such as core/backbone routers and DWDM optical transmission systems. The basic question this thesis seeks to answer, therefore, is how can Chinese companies become technologically …
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