Business experience and local government size: evidence from China

Author(s):  
Weijie Luo
2000 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-126
Author(s):  
Andy Green

In Notes from the Front, practising entrepreneurs offer personal perspectives on significant issues in the light of their own business experience. This issue's author, Andy Green runs his own public relations (PR) and marketing consultancy based in Wakefield, Yorkshire, UK. A former chairman of the Yorkshire Group of the Institute of Public Relations, Andy has been involved in PR since he left Swansea University in 1981. His career has spanned local government, utilities and the private sector, prior to establishing his own business seven years ago. In recent years he has diversified into consultancy in creativity. He has won numerous professional awards for this new line of work and now runs courses for the Institute of Public Relations and for many leading consultancies and organizations. He is the author of ‘Creativity in Public Relations', a book in the ‘PR in Practice Series’, published by Kogan Page in association with the Institute of Public Relations (IPR). In this article he reflects on his development of creativity as a concept and as a product, and also on the relationship between entrepreneurship and creative thinking.


Public Choice ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 157 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 183-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Liberati ◽  
Agnese Sacchi

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-285
Author(s):  
Prapti Ningsih

This study is a quantitative study that aims to examine the effect of capital expenditure as measured by total expenditure transformed to Ln capital expenditure, Government Size measured by total asets transformed to Ln total asets and Number of SKPDs, and audit opinion measured by grading levels opinion obtained by the Regency / City in Nusa Tenggara. The population in this study were all districts / cities in Nusa Tenggara 2016-2018, the sample in this study used a saturated sample. Testing the hypothesis in this study using Multiple Regression Analysis with the SPSS program. Hypothesis testing results show that (1) capital expenditure has a significant effect on the disclosure of local government financial statements (2) government size on asets does not have a significant effect on the disclosure of local government financial statements (3) government size on the number of SKPD does not significantly influence the disclosure of government financial statements regional (4) audit opinion has a significant effect on the disclosure of local government financial statements


2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 1168-1183
Author(s):  
Maidelfian Putra Bakar ◽  
Fefri Indra Arza

Local governments are obliged to ensure that their financial statements are presented in a timely manner as they are a form of accountability to the public. These financial reports can be used by the public to evaluate the capabilities of local governments in managing their resources effectively and efficiently. Financial statements that were not provided on time may cause those report loses their capacity to influence decisions. The study was categorized into causative research. Where this study aims to see how far the independent variables affect the dependent variable. This research tries to explain the influence of local government size (X1), audit opinion (X2) and leverage (X3) as independent variable to audit delay (Y) as dependent variable. The population observed in this study is from regencies and cities in West Sumatera in 2015 and 2017. The result of this study shows that the audit opinion variable cause significant negative effect on audit delay. The local government size and the leverage variable doesn't affect audit delay. This study also shows that local government size, audit opinion, and leverage together influence audit delay


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