The Current State of the Debate privatization of infrastructure in many developing countries has spawned new critiques of Mary Shirley privatization. How do theory Patrick Walsh and empirical evidence answer the much-debated questions, Which is more important to performance, competition or private ownership? Are state enterprises more subject to welfare-reducing interventions by government than...

How to align public sector compensation with the market? In industrial countries, a common reference is the salary paid by private employers for similar jobs. But comparable jobs are formal, whereas in developing countries the relevant alternative for many public sector workers is in the informal sector. Another approach uses as a reference the earnings of similar workers in the private sector,...

The new reforms of health systems in Latin American countries began in the 1990s as part of wider state reforms, promoted by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. In Colombia, the new system called National Social Security System for Health (Sistema Nacional de Seguridad Social en Salud, SNSSS) was defined by the Law number 100, approved in 1993 by the Congress. Its regulation is unde...

One of the myths of inter-enterprise process execution is that workflow management systems (WFMSs) deployed in enterprises can achieve the collaboration between enterprises across networks and that there is "one process across enterprises". The reality is that important model primitives are missing in WFMSs required to achieve inter-enterprise process collaboration. WFMSs were not designed to d...

This paper is concerned with the estimation of frontier production function to measure the technical efficiency for Iranian textile companies during 1995. The objective of this estimation is to investigate if there are any differences in the technical efficiency between the private and public firms as well as the relationship between technical efficiency and size of textile companies in Iran. A...

This Special Issue, taking five years to come to fruition, presents the latest research on strategic management in private and family businesses in Asia Pacific regions. Asia Pacific societies have a long history of private and family businesses. For example, a Chinese classic, Records of the Grand Historian (known by its Chinese name Shiji, which was written from 109 BC to 91 BC), includes a c...

Though without any vital significance in the economic literature and the media smalland medium-sized enterprises (SME) represent the sector of real economic power and the largest employer both in Germany and Europe. The official statistics are self-explaining (IfM Bonn 2005, DSGV 2005): • More than 3.3 million SME exist in Germany at present. • These enterprises provide about 70 per cent of the...