In order to improve the management level of China’s state-owned enterprises, we should consider the management environment of state-owned enterprises and construct a suitable management mode, instead of copying the management experiences in western countries. Based on an in-depth analysis, this paper puts forward suggestions for the management reform in state-owned enterprises from three aspect...

This study explores the differences in pollution control performance of industries with different types of ownership – State owned (SOE), collectively or community owned (COE), and privately owned (POE). A theoretic analysis is conducted and followed by an empirical assessment with Chinese data. The empirical results show that the COEs in China have better environmental performances in water po...

The inherent problems of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), such as the lack external monitoring, may harm their accounting quality. However, results from prior research are not consistent. Therefore, this study investigates effect state ownership SOEs on quality, measured by earnings management. Using samples listed in A-share market China 2009 to 2017, indicate that there is a significant and po...

Abstract State-owned enterprises (SOEs) retain a strong presence in many economies around the world. How do governments manage these firms given their dual economic and political nature? Many states use authority over executive appointments as key means of governing SOEs. We analyze nature this “personnel power” by assessing patterns SOE leaders’ mobility China, country with largest state-owned...

Earnings management refers to a company’s use of either accounting techniques (accrual-based earnings management) or real economic activities (real manipulate reported and mislead users financial information. It often indicates serious ethical issues in management, which will affect the reliability sustainability firm’s services supply chain. Using A-share listed Chinese firms on Shanghai Shenz...

I evaluate the role of China’s privatization of the economy in weakening the effects of the birth control policy, known as the one-child policy in the West, during the last three decades. State-owned enterprises or other state-owned organizations (SOEs) imposes more control over individual choices and hence represents increased state capacity (Acemoglu et al., 2015). The baseline OLS regression...

AbstractThis chapter provides an analysis of the role Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and their investment in Africa. It aims to help understand complexity issues concerning SOEs clarify misconceptions about them. discusses Africa general particular. The concerns benefits by impacts practice are assessed. explores regulatory challenges for both China (as home State investors) African cou...

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...

While privatization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) remains a popular policy tool in many countries, the impacts on workers are unclear. This paper studies case Brazil, which implemented large program 1990s. Following privatization, incumbent privatized SOEs suffer wage decline roughly 25 percent relative to matched control group. Additionally, private sector firms that connected by labor mob...

This paper examines US patent citation data and analyzes how different firms in China affect knowledge spillovers. Patents granted by the US patent office to inventors located in China are collected along with their citation counts. Two kinds of patent citations, namely, citations of previous patents and those of non-patent literature, are used to measure knowledge flows. In the empirical analy...