Privatization shifts ownership and control of public assets to private investors. Many governments use it as an important means to invigorate their state-owned enterprises (SOEs). However, it is not clear how changes in government ownership affect firm performance. Some economists argue that, in competitive markets without significant externalities, government ownership is inferior to private o...

Using firm-level data from Changzhou, one of the representative prefectural cities in the Yangzi River Delta in China, we investigate the performances of both internal and external R&D in high-tech firms. We find that, on average, high-tech firms with more internal R&D expenditure apply for more patents in terms of both the total number of patents and the number of invention patents. Internal R...

Abstract This paper investigates the effect of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on economic growth in 30 European countries period between 2010 and 2016. We build a unique dataset weight SOEs based data more than 130,000 large nonfinancial companies. In our regression analysis, we condition different measures institutional quality. According to results, are not positive or negative for per se. Th...

This study assessed the factors that determine financial management behavior of administrators in state-owned enterprises (SOEs) Nigeria. The rising cases mismanagement, which was associated with top these SOEs, prompted this study. It is believed identifying would help to find solutions problem. Based on multistage sampling technique, 385 from SOEs at federal level Nigeria participated survey....

The article explores the role of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in globalisation China's infrastructure capital. Examining how accumulation strategies Chinese SOEs are driven by a complex set political and economic, state private, interests, it foregrounds inherently hybrid nature capitalism. We use Kenya's Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) as case study to analyse capital traverses borders, specifi...

Purpose In this exploratory multiple case study, we aim to compare the internationalization of two state-owned enterprises (SOEs) owned by subnational governments with three central in Latin America. This study provides a contextualized answer question: What are differences subnationally SOEs compared SOEs? finds that speed and diversification these types SOEs’ differ because they have differen...

Talent is the "first resource" for state-owned enterprises to achieve high-quality development. Only by following law of market economy can we realize optimal allocation talent elements and play maximum value. The government has repeatedly stressed that it should not only introduce local talents from regions, but also seek all development talents, use good without sticking one pattern, gather o...

Purpose – The purpose of the study reported in this paper was to identify, assess and explore potential risks that Chinese companies may encounter when using, maintaining and enhancing their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems in the post-implementation phase. Design/methodology/approach – The study adopted a deductive research design based on a cross-sectional questionnaire survey. This...