Privatization—defined here as the transfer of ownership of state-owned organizations to
private parties—has attracted the attention of scholars across multiple fields. Privatization …

National institutions shape the ability of civil society and minority shareholders to monitor
and influence decision-makers in listed state owned enterprises (SOEs), and thereby their …

What is human resource strategy? How are human resources strategies formulated and how
can we explain the variance between what is espoused and what is actually implemented …

Organizational slack has been recognized as critical to firm performance, although its impact
is not always positive. Slack may be used to fuel innovation or alternatively excess …

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the effect of political connections on earnings quality
by simultaneously controlling the firm characteristics; to test whether Pakistani firms' …

abstract This article examines differences in performance between private companies
(POEs) and state owned enterprises (SOEs), with an emphasis on the effects of market …

This study analyzes how family control influences firms' acquisition activity using a
socioemotional wealth (SEW) approach and discusses their anticipated SEW gains and …

The objective of this paper is assess the financial performance of disinvested central public
sector enterprises (PSEs) in India on the basis of several dimensions on pre and post …

Purpose Despite the vast literature on privatization, the relationship between change of
ownership and performance is not clear. The purpose of this paper is to understand why …

Ownership mixing and vertical unbundling are the two pending restructuring reforms in
electricity industry in many developing countries, while few studies compared the two …