Bureaucrats in business: The roles of privatization versus corporatization in state-owned enterprise reform

World Development

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 115-136

  Shirley, Mary M ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Bureaucracy; Government ownership; Privatization; Public enterprises

Indexed keywords

BUREAUCRACY; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC REFORM; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; POLITICAL ECONOMY; PRIVATIZATION; STATE OWNED ENTERPRISE;

EID: 0032945937     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-750X(98)00130-2     Document Type: Article

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