The Role of Public Enterprises in Regional Competition

2000 ◽  
pp. 186-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Friedrich ◽  
Xiao Feng
Keyword(s):  
Public Enterprises ◽  
Regional Competition

scholarly journals Public policy, public utility and citizens: The impact of privatization

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Μαντώ Λαμπροπούλου (Manto Lampropoulou)
Keyword(s):  
Public Utility ◽  
Network Industries ◽  
Public Enterprises ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
The Past ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Over the past two decades, utilities policy in Greece has been steadily shifting towards privatization and liberalization. This shift signified a critical reconsideration of the boundaries and the dynamics of the relationship between the state and the market in network industries. Public debate usually focuses on issues of ownership of public enterprises and economic performance. On the contrary, this book places the emphasis on the socio-economic implications of utilities policy for citizens. A key issue is the impact of privatization on the relationship between government (state), public enterprises (market) and citizens (society). The study covers the period from the post-war state monopolies to the current circumstances of mixed/private ownership of public enterprises and liberalized markets. The main questions addressed in this book are the following: What is the rationale (legitimization) for government intervention in the utilities sector? What are the politics of nationalization and privatization? How different policy contexts affect the institutional, organizational and regulatory framework of the utilities sector? Who are the key-stakeholders and policy actors? What is the role of citizens? What is the (re)distribution of utilities policy costs and benefits among stakeholders?

scholarly journals The Role of Internal Audit as a Starting Point for the Discovery of Irregularities in the Financial Statements of Public Companies in Kosovo

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hysen Ismajli ◽  
Muhamet Aliu ◽  
Arben Sahiti ◽  
Lumbardha Lutolli
Keyword(s):  
Internal Audit ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Likert Scale ◽  
Public Enterprises ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Public Companies ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Spss Software ◽  
The Republic

The main purpose of this paper is to verify whether the internal audit affects the detection of anomalies and fraud in the financial statements of public companies in Kosovo. To achieve this purpose, we have prepared a questionnaire and distributed to public enterprises in the Republic of Kosovo. The questionnaire includes open and closed questions in the form of Likert scale established to asess proposition and oposition of the participants. Responses were analyzed through SPSS software, and hypotheses were tested by analyzing the correlation. Based on results we can conclude that the role of internal audit can serve as a starting point in finding fraud and errors in financial reports.

scholarly journals A Proposed Framework of Corporate Entrepreneurship in Government-linked Companies

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 234
Author(s):  
Harry Entebang
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Corporate Entrepreneurship ◽  
External Factors ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public Enterprises ◽  
Internal And External Factors

The growth of public enterprises or government-linked companies (GLCs) has been phenomenal over the years. However, the performance of GLCs remains a major concern. On the other hand, past studies have postulated that there is a strong relationship between corporate entrepreneurship (CE), entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and firm performance. Despite this, viewing GLCs’ performance in the context of CE or EO has received minimal attention among strategic management and entrepreneurship scholars. This paper highlights and discusses the performance of GLCs within the context of CE. Given the role of EO as a direct predictor while proposing CE internal and external factors as moderators of the EO-CE performance relationship in GLCs, a proposed framework of CE within the context of GLCs in Malaysia is proposed.

The Role of Regional Public Enterprises in Spain: Room for a Shadow Government?

2013 ◽  
Vol 205 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Fernández Llera ◽  
María A. García Valiñas
Keyword(s):  
Public Enterprises

scholarly journals Changing Role of the State in Regional Economic Policies

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyhan Taş ◽  
Mehmet Akif Kara ◽  
Sena Türkmen ◽  
Enver Günay
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
The Public ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Regional Competition ◽  
Changing Role

It is observed that regional economic policies, which are applied to reduce the regional imbalances and to improve the income and employment in underdeveloped regions, tend to change in time. This change in turn brings out the concept of regional competition. This change also reflects the state’s policy tools, while the concept of regional efficiency becomes to be determinative in state’s regional economic policies in addition to the concept of regional equality. In this context the public policies of regional level can be said as following: first to develop regional infrastructural investments, second; to support the small and medium sized firms and the clusters around them which can stimulate internal potential of the region, and to develop the technological and innovative frames of the firms. Similar changes occur in Turkey as well together with the European Union membership process, while the concept of regional competition begins to shape the regional economic policies with the legal and institutional arrangements. In this study, we tried to assess the changing role of the state, especially from the point of Turkey, in the regional development policies.

scholarly journals The Profitability of Public Enterprises in Pakistan

1984 ◽  
Vol 23 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 147-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khwaja Sarmad
Keyword(s):  
Predictive Power ◽  
Public Enterprise ◽  
Ratio Analysis ◽  
Public Enterprises ◽  
Balance Sheets ◽  
The Public ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
Capital Financing ◽  
Profitability Ratios

The importance of the profitability of public enterprise for capital expansion and development has been highlighted in various studies, e.g. in (2], [4] and (5). In Pakistan the increasing role of the public sector in resource mobilization points to the need for analysing public enterprise profitability because of its immense importance for capital financing and growth. This paper analyses the profitability of public enterprises in Pakistan using a Ratio analysis methodology which chooses performance indicators on the basis of their sensitivity to the operational health of the enterprises. The profitability ratios discussed here have been derived from the public-enterprise balance-sheets [9] and constitute the choice-set from which four ratios have been selected on the basis of their predictive power. (See [I], [3], [8] and [10].) In this way, the arbitrariness involved in the choice of the appropriate ratios for analysing enterprise profitability is overcome, even though profitability measurement may still be distorted to such an extent that effective prices diverge from opportunity costs. This makes the task of performance evaluation difficult as such an exercise has to take into account the implications of market distortions. The usefulness of profitability as an indicator of relative inter-firm performance is therefore limited by the fact that prices are administered with reference to products and are not tied to firm experience. But, owing to the lack of data on the required variables, the effect of market distortions on profitability is difficult to analyse.

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