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A Natural Experiment of Industrial Policy: Floriculture and the Metal and Engineering Industries in EthiopiaEthiopia represents an excellent case study of recent industrial policy experimentation in Africa. The country is well known for its successful promotion of the cut-flower industry through business-government co-ordination...
Agriculture Government business enterprises Industrial policyWorking Paper
The Political Economy of Industrial Development in Vietnam: Impact of State-Business Relationship on Industrial Performance, 1986-2012Vietnam’s industrial development since doi moi is a success, but only a partial one. This paper provides a political economy account of Vietnam’s industrial growth since 1986...
Business enterprises Corporate law Economic growthWorking Paper
Who Really Leads Development?‘Leadership’ is not a common topic for research in international development. In recent years, however, prominent studies like the 2008 Growth Commission Report noted the importance of leadership in development...
Government business enterprises Policy sciences Decision making (Public administration)Book Chapter
Rethinking China's Path of IndustrializationFrom the book: Pathways to Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century
Democratization Government business enterprises Industrial policyBook Chapter
Entrepreneurship, Stages of Development, and IndustrializationFrom the book: Pathways to Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century
Business Entrepreneurship Government business enterprisesWorking Paper
Entrepreneurship, Stages of Development, and IndustrializationUnlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement no...
Business Entrepreneurship Government business enterprisesWorking Paper
Rethinking China’s Path of IndustrializationThis study shows that China’s post-1949 state-led industrialization has closely followed an underlying path that began in the late nineteenth century...
Democratization Government business enterprises Industrial policyBook Chapter
Hardening a Soft Budget Constraint Through 'Upward Devolution' to a Supranational Institution: The Case of the European Union and Italian State-Owned FirmsFrom the book: Ownership and Governance of Enterprises
Budget Government business enterprises Government spending policyBook Chapter
Ownership Reform in the Absence of Crisis: China's Township, Village and Private EnterprisesFrom the book: Small and Medium Enterprises in Transitional Economies
Corporate governance Government business enterprises Post-communismBook Chapter
Entrepreneurship and Proprietorship in Transition: Policy Implications for the SME SectorFrom the book: Small and Medium Enterprises in Transitional Economies
Entrepreneurship Government business enterprises Post-communismBook Chapter
Privatization in Sub-Saharan Africa: On Factors Affecting ImplementationFrom the book: Reforming Africa's Institutions
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic policy Government business enterprisesJournal Article
Does a Switch of Budget Regimes Affect Investment and Managerial Discretion of State-Owned Enterprises?: Evidence from Italian FirmsPart of Journal Special Issue WIDER Symposium on Adaptive Efficiency and Evolving Diversity of Enterprise Ownership and Governance
Budget Government business enterprises International obligationsJournal Article
Rent Seeking and Government Ownership of Firms: An Application to China's Township–Village EnterprisesPart of Journal Special Issue WIDER Symposium on Adaptive Efficiency and Evolving Diversity of Enterprise Ownership and Governance
Government business enterprises Microeconomics Organizational behaviorJournal Article
Introduction: Adaptive Efficiency and Evolving Diversity of Enterprise Ownership and GovernancePart of Journal Special Issue WIDER Symposium on Adaptive Efficiency and Evolving Diversity of Enterprise Ownership and Governance
Entrepreneurship Government business enterprises Right of propertyWorking Paper
Does a Switch of Budget Regimes Constrain Managerial Discretion?: Evidence for Italian Public Enterprises' InvestmentThis study examines the effect of the hardening of the budget constraint on the investment behaviour of Italian state owned enterprises (SOEs)...
Budget Government business enterprises International obligationsWorking Paper
Hardening a Soft Budget Constraint Through 'Upward Devolution' to a Supranational Institution: The Case of Italian State-Owned Firms and the European UnionThis paper contributes to the literature on the role of decentralization in hardening the budget constraint of public enterprises. Following Qian and Roland the study adopts a ‘federalist’ approach...
Budget Government business enterprises Government spending policy