Public enterprise governance: KCR corporation and its governance controversies

Public Management Review

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 565-587

  Yeung, Rikkie L K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Governance; Integration; Organizational governance; Public enterprise; Railways

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745699691     PISSN: 14719037     EISSN: 14719045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14719030500362579     Document Type: Article

References (79)

1. Barron, B. and Ng, S. and Loh, C. and Gilbert, R.(2002) Sustainable Transport in Hong Kong: Directions and Opportunities. Hong Kong: Civic Exchange.
2. Collyer, F. and McMaster, J. and Wettenhall, R.(2001) Privatisation and Public Enterprises Reform in Australia. In Privatisation or Public Enterprises Reform? International Case Studies with Implications for Public Management. Westport CT & London: Greenwood.
3. (1999) Governance: Concepts and Applications. Brussels: International Institute of Administrative Sciences.
4. Ernst and Young.(2002) Ernst & Young Report. Hong Kong
5. Farazmand, A.(1996) Public Enterprise Management: International Case Studies. Westport CT: Greenwood Press.
6. Haggarty, L. and Shirley, M. (1997) A New Data Base on State-Owned Enterprises The World Bank Economic Review. II, 3, pp. 491-513. http://www.worldbank.org/research/journals/wber/revsep97/new.htm and http://www.worldbank.org/html/prdfp/bib/bibdata.htm
7. Hansard.(1989a) Hong Kong Hansard: Legislative Council Proceedings.
8. Hansard.(1989b) Hong Kong Hansard. 21
9. Hansard.(1989c) Hong Kong Hansard.
10. HKET.(2001a) Hong Kong Economic Times.
11. HKET.(2001b) Editorial. In Hong Kong Economic Times. (1)
12. HKET.(2001c) Hong Kong Economic Times. (2)
13. HKS.(1989a) Hong Kong Standard.
14. HKS.(1989b) Hong Kong Standard.
15. HKSAR Government, Director of Environmental Protection (HKSARG DEP).(2001) Sheung Shui to Lok Ma Chau Spur Line: Reasons for Not Approving the EIA Report and Not Issuing an Environmental Permit. (http://www.epd.gov.hk/eia/register/reason/eia044.htm).
16. HKSAR Government, Transport Bureau (HKSARG TB).(2001) Legislative Council Brief: Kowloon - Canton Railway Corporation (Amendment) Bill 2001 issued on 27 September.
17. (2001) Hong Kong Laws Chapter 372. Kowloon: Canton Railway Corporation Ordinance.
18. International Research Symposium of Public Sector Management. Edinburgh
19. KCRC.(2000) The KCRC Environment Report 1999. Edinburgh issued in June 2000 (http://www.kcrc.com/eng/corporate/news/old/Envrpt/cover.htm).
20. KCRC.(2001) Property Development Plan at the Northern Part of the KCRC Hung Hom Station. Paper issued for the LegCo Bill Committee on the KCRC (Amendment) Bill 2001 on 22 November
21. KCRC.(2002) Press Release: 'External Auditors Appointed to Look into Contract Awards.
22. KCRC AR.(1982-2002) Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation Annual Report, 1982 to 2002. Hong Kong: KCRC.
23. (1993) Modern Governance: New Government-Society Interactions. London: Sage Publications.
24. (2002) State, Market and Civil Society: Interdependencies and Interpenetrations. Paper presented at the IRSPSM 6, January
25. LegCo (Hong Kong Legislative Council).(1996) Legislative Council Panel on Transport Subcommittee on West Corridor Railway Minutes of meetings on 26 July, 2 August, 6 September and 24 September.
26. LegCo (Hong Kong Legislative Council).(2001) Legislative Council Bills Committee on Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation (Amendment) Bill 2001. In Minutes of meetings held on 15 November and 23 November.
27. LegCo (Hong Kong Legislative Council).(2003) Legislative Council Panel on Transport Subcommittee on Railways. In Minutes of meeting on 25 February.
28. Lynn, L., Jr and Heinrich, C. and Hill, C.(2001) Improving Governance: A New Logic for Empirical Research. Washington: Georgetown University Press.
29. MP. (2000) Mingpao.
30. MP.(2001a) Mingpao.
31. MP.(2001b) Mingpao.
32. MP.(2001c) Mingpao.
33. MP.(2002a) Mingpao.
34. MP.(2002b) Editorial. In Mingpao.
35. MP.(2002c) Mingpao.
36. MP.(2002d) Mingpao. (1).
37. MP.(2002e) Mingpao. (2)
38. MP.(2002f) Editorial. In Mingpao (1)
39. MP.(2002g) Mingpao. (2)
40. Next.(2001) Next Magazine.
41. Niskanen, W. (1968) The Peculiar Economics of Bureaucracy American Economic Review, 58(2), pp. 617-644. in Niskanen (1994) Bureaucracy and Public Economics, Aldershot, Hants: Edward Elgar
42. O'Nuallain, C. and Thynne, I. and Wettenhall, R.(1996) Public Enterprise Management: An Educational Journey. In Public Enterprise Management: International Case Studies. Westport CT: Greenwood Press.
43. Paquet, G.(2001) The New Governance, Subsidiarity and the Strategic State in OECD. In Governance in the 21st Century. Paris: OECD.
44. Peres, L. (1969) Resurrection of Autonomy: Organisation Theory and the Statutory Corporation Public Administration Sydney, 27(3), pp. 360-369.
45. Plumptre, T. and Graham, J.(2000) Governance in the New Millennium: Challenges for Canada. Ottawa: Institute on Governance.
46. SCMP.(1989a) South China Morning Post.
47. SCMP.(1989b) South China Morning Post.
48. SCMP.(1989c) South China Morning Post.
49. SCMP.(1989d) South China Morning Post. (1)
50. SCMP.(1989e) South China Morning Post. (2)
51. SCMP.(1989f) South China Morning Post. (3)
52. SCMP.(1989g) South China Morning Post.
53. SCMP.(1989h) South China Morning Post.
54. SCMP.(1996a) South China Morning Post.
55. SCMP.(1996b) South China Morning Post.
56. SCMP.(2000a) South China Morning Post.
57. SCMP.(2000b) South China Morning Post.
58. SCMP.(2000c) South China Morning Post.
59. SCMP.(2001a) South China Morning Post.
60. SCMP.(2001b) South China Morning Post.
61. SCMP.(2001c) South China Morning Post.
62. SCMP.(2001d) South China Morning Post.
63. SCMP.(2002a) South China Morning Post. (1)
64. SCMP.(2002b) South China Morning Post. (2) Editorial
65. SCMP.(2002c) South China Morning Post.
66. SCMP.(2002d) South China Morning Post.
67. Seidman, H. (1983) Need for New Theory International Review of Administrative Science, 49(1), pp. 65-72.
68. Shirley, M.(1983) Managing State-Owned Enterprises. World Bank Staff Working Papers Number 577, Management and Development Series Number 4. Washington: World Bank.
69. Sikorski, D. (1993) A General Critique of Theory on Public Enterprise: Part I International Journal of Public Sector Management, 6(2), pp. 17-40. Part II, 6: 5 pp56-67
70. Sun.(2002) Sun.
71. Thynne, I.(1991) Transformation of Public Enterprises: Changing Patterns of Ownership, Accountability and Control. In Marketisation in ASEAN. Singapore: ASEAN Economic Research Unit of Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
72. Thynne, I.(1995) Basic Concepts and Issues. In Corporatisation, Divestment and the Public - Private Mix: Selected Country Studies. Hong Kong: Asian Journal of Public Administration.
73. Thynne, I. (1997) Hong Kong's Kowloon - Canton Railway Corporation and Its Golden Handshake Affair Asian Journal of Public Administration, 19(1), pp. 142-156.
74. Thynne, I. (2000) The State and Governance: Issues and Challenges in Perspective International Review of Administrative Sciences, 66, pp. 227-240.
75. Thynne, I.(2003) Understanding Government Organisations: Snapshots for Beginners' (draft).
76. Vigar, G.(2002) The Politics of Mobility: Transport, the Environment, and Public Policy. London: Spon Press.
77. Wettenhall, R. (1968) Government Department or Statutory Authority? Public Administration Sydney, 27(4), pp. 350-359.
78. Wettenhall, R. (1985) Acworth, Attlee and Now: One Hundred Years of Debate about Public Enterprise - Government Relations Political Science (Wellington), 37(2), pp. 125-139.
79. World Bank.(1995) Bureaucrats in Business: The Economics and Politics of Government Ownership. Washington DC: World Bank.