scholarly journals Issues of Privatizing Public Enterprise in the Telecommunications Sector in Korea

1989 ◽  
Vol 4 (0) ◽  
pp. 147-156
Author(s):  
Dong-Kun Kim
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Public Enterprise ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Public Enterprises ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Telecommunications Sector

There has been a change in attitudes toward public enterprises around the world in recent years. In Western Europe, the United Kingdom and France have set out to privatize public enterprises on a large scale. While many of developing countries have considered public enterprise as the mainstay of economic development, there has been also an increasing disillusionment with public enterprise and proposals have been made for privatization in various areas. This paper attempts to describe the economic role of public enterprise and explain the general reasons for privatizing public enterprise in the developing countries. And this paper attempts to draw some issues involved in the privatization of public enterprise, particularly considering the case of telecommunications sector in Korea. Future prospects are briefly mentioned as conclusion.

Public Enterprise Management: Strategies for Success

1990 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-14
Author(s):  
Mohan Kaul
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Public Enterprise ◽  
Enterprise Management ◽  
Public Enterprises ◽  
Successful Management

What constitutes successful management of public enterprises? Executives of successful enterprises from 14 commonwealth countries exchanged their experiences and outlined strategies at two roundtable meetings under the auspices of the Commonwealth Secretariat, London. This paper is a summary of the views of the executives presented at the two meetings. In recent years, public enterprises in developed and developing countries have been criticized for not fulfilling the expectations placed on them. The case studies and the discussions at the two meetings, however, reveal that many public enterprises have been managed, successfully. The strategies outlined by the executives relate to managing the external environment, the enterprise-government interface, internal management, building enterprise culture, managing human resources, and the role of leadership.

Natural Resources and Problems of Development

1974 ◽  
Vol 9 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 179-184
Author(s):  
Per Antonsen
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Third World ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
World Market ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
The Third World

The author focuses on problems in the economy of the developing countries likely to arise as a consequence of mineral exploitation in the new territories. A general shortage of mineral resources, although predicted, should not uncritically be adopted as a sufficient explanation of the demonstrated interest of industrial enterprises in undertaking heavy investments in the new territories. The economic security claimed by institutions financing large-scale investments, may just as likely force the companies to seek options for long-term supplies from these areas, unhampered by the politically caused instabilities perceived in the Third World. This development may tend to push the developing countries into the role of subsidiary suppliers in the world market. The committees preparing the UN Conference on the Law of the Sea have so far taken no realistic measures to counteract this possibility, which may prove detrimental to the economies of several developing countries. The Conference will, in the opinion of the author, provide little but a settlement of disputed interests among the coastal states.

Agricultural Co-operatives

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samira Nuhanovic-Ribic ◽  
Ermanno C. Tortia ◽  
Vladislav Valentinov
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Vertical Integration ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Scale Production ◽  
Economic Literature ◽  
Economic Independence ◽  
Large Scale Production ◽  
Entrepreneurial Action

Over the last decades, agricultural co-operatives grew substantially in most developed and developing countries, often reaching dominant market positions. We inquire into the economic mechanism behind this growth, by elaborating on the relation between co-operative identity and co-operative benefits. We highlight the ability of agricultural co-operatives to co-ordinate large-scale production, to monitor work contributions and product quality, and to ensure economic independence of farmer members. Following the two principal streams in the economic literature, we distinguish between the conceptions of agricultural co-operatives as units of vertical integration and as firms characterized by common governance of collective entrepreneurial action and ability to reduce transaction costs and economic risk. We describe the financial and governance limitations of agricultural co-operatives while taking account of new co-operative models presenting institutional tools introduced to overcome these limitations. We conclude by suggesting directions for enhancing the role of co-operatives in agricultural and rural development.

Since 1945: New Amenities, New Hazards

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
William B. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
World History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
The Past ◽  
American Society ◽  
Service Employment

If the average citizen's surroundings defined the national climate, then the United States grew markedly warmer and drier in the postwar decades. Migration continued to carry the center of population west and began pulling it southward as well. The growth of what came to be called the Sunbelt at the "Snowbelt's" expense passed a landmark in the early 1960s when California replaced New York as the most populous state. Another landmark was established in the early 1990s when Texas moved ahead of New York. In popular discussion, it was taken for granted that finding a change of climate was one of the motives for relocating as well as one of the results. It was not until 1954, though, that an American social scientist first seriously considered the possibility. The twentieth-century flow of Americans to the West Coast, the geographer Edward L. Ullman observed in that year, had no precedent in world history. It could not be explained by the theories of settlement that had worked well in the past, for a substantial share of it represented something entirely new, "the first large-scale in-migration to be drawn by the lure of a pleasant climate." If it was the first of its kind, it was unlikely to be the last. For a set of changes in American society, Ullman suggested, had transformed the economic role of climate. The key changes included a growth in the numbers of pensioned retirees; an increase in trade and service employment, much more "footloose" than agriculture or manufacturing was; developments in technology making manufacturing itself more footloose; and a great increase in mobility brought about by the automobile and the highway. All in one way or another had weakened the bonds of place and made Americans far freer than before to choose where to live. Whatever qualities made life in any spot particularly pleasant thus attracted migration more than in the past. Ullman grouped such qualities together as "amenities." They ranged from mountains to beaches to cultural attractions, but climate appeared to be the most important, not least because it was key to the enjoyment of many of the rest. Ullman did not suppose that all Americans desired the same climate. For most people, in this as in other respects, "where one was born and lives is the best place in the world, no matter how forsaken a hole it may appear to an outsider."

Malaysia's Privatization Programme

1994 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bakul H Dholakia ◽  
Ravindra H Dholakia
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Public Enterprises ◽  
Success Story ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Privatization Policy

Malaysia is among the first few developing countries to have launched a large scale programme of privatization of public enterprises. Malaysia's experience of formulating and implementing the privatization programme is generally hailed as a success story. In this paper, Bakul H Dholakia and Ravindra H Dholakia examine various aspects of Malaysia's privatization programme such as the objectives of privatization policy, methods of privatization, issues in implementation and the impact of the programme on the Malaysian economy, and also discuss the relevance of this experience for privatization in India.

scholarly journals A Nonaligned Business World: The Global Socialist Enterprise between Self-Management and Transnational Capitalism

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Ljubica Spaskovska ◽  
Anna Calori
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Public Enterprise ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
Business World ◽  
Socialist Enterprise ◽  
Leading Role

Abstract This article explores the role of Yugoslav self-managed corporations in the global economy, with a particular attention to the late socialist period (1976–1991). Guided by a vision of a long-term integration of the Yugoslav economy into the international division of labor on the basis of equality and mutual interest, by the late 1970s the country’s foreign trade and hard currency revenue was boosted by a number of globally oriented corporate entities, some of which survived the demise of socialism and the dissolution of the country. These enterprises had a leading role as the country’s principal exporters and as the fulcrum of a web of economic contacts and exchanges between the Global South, Western Europe, and the Soviet Bloc. The article seeks to fill a historiographic gap by focusing on two major Yugoslav enterprises (Energoinvest and Pelagonija) that were based in the less-developed federal republics—Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia. The article also investigates the transnational flow of ideas around the so-called “public enterprise,” its embeddedness in an interdependent global economy, and its visions for equitable development. Finally, the article explores these enterprises as enablers of social mobility and welfare, as well as spaces where issues of efficiency, planning, self-reliance, and self-management were negotiated.

The Evolution of the Economic Role of the Brazilian State, 1889–1930

1979 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Topik
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Foreign Markets ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
Brazilian State ◽  
Freedom Of Action

The economic role of the Brazilian State has received much attention recently from economists. Those who have studied it generally assume that the State first became economically active on a large scale after 1930 when it fostered industrialization. They also assume, often implicitly, that politicians and bureaucrats have had a great deal of freedom of action in policy formulation and that greater state economic intervention increases national independence from foreign markets and capitalists.1

scholarly journals K razumevanju ženskega dela v veliki vojni

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-125
Author(s):  
Urška Strle
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Home Front ◽  
War Economy ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
Active Population ◽  
Slovenian Population ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Military

UNDERSTANDING WOMEN'S WORK DURING THE GREAT WARThe article deals with the intersection of war economy and women's workforce during World War I and pays a special attention to the Slovenian population. Using a variety of sources, the author tries to synthesise the generalities and specifics of the women’s involvement into the war economy in the so-called Slovenian lands. War economy is understood in the broadest sense and includes not only armament and war-related production, but also the acute issue of supplies for the military and civil sphere.The economic role of the Slovenian lands, peripheral within the Habsburg Monarchy, and the social structure of the Slovenian population profoundly affected the way how women were being included into the activities at the home front. The author argues that the sensational images from Western Europe, presenting a massive inclusion of women into the war industry, are not typical for the Slovenian space. However, the role of women in the war economy should not be underestimated, for they represented the majority of economically active population, supporting not only the civil society but also the army.

Punic Carthage

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Technical Expertise ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
Legal Position

This chapter examines the legal position and economic role of slaves in Punic Carthage. First, through an examination of the evidence of Graeco-Roman and Punic sources, it shows that Finley was mistaken to dismiss Carthage as relying on non-slave dependants and that slavery was an important institution at Carthage. Second, this chapter looks at the evidence for large-scale exploitation of slave labour in Carthage’s large agricultural hinterland and the scale of slave ownership among the Carthaginian aristocracy. It ends by showing how the Romans drew on the technical expertise of Carthaginian slaveholding agronomists in their own approach to slave-based agriculture in Italy.

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