Cuba's Economic Reforms and the Performance of Organizations
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This paper examines the organization and performance of Cuba’s private and state-run organizations following the economic liberalization that started in 2010-2011. The reforms reduced the constraints faced by private sector organizations and the sector expanded considerably. Additionally, worker cooperatives were newly permitted in the non-agricultural sector. All this while state owned and managed entities continued to operate as before. The reforms present a unique opportunity to study the comparative performance of this variety of organizational forms. Based on field research in Cuba, this paper describes the organization of the new non-agricultural cooperatives. I also conduct a broader analysis of the restaurant business in Havana using online ratings by users and text reviews.
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