The rise of the new public service transnationals: European or global phenomenon?

The European Enterprise: Historical Investigation into a Future Species

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 209-222

  Clifton, Judith ^a,b,c   Comín, Francisco ^d   Díaz Fuentes, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^c European University Institute   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

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EID: 77956847958     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74038-4_15     Document Type: Chapter

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2. UNCTAD (1993-2006) World Investment Report, Geneva: UNCTAD.
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5. see J Stiglitz (2003) Globalization and its Discontents, New York:W. Norton & Company, for a critical view.
6. J Clifton, F Comn & D Diaz-Fuentes (2003) Privatisation in the European Union, Dordrecht: Kluwer.
7. See (eds.) J Clifton, F Comn & D Daz-Fuentes (2007) Transforming Public Enterprise in Europe and North America: Networks, Integration and Transnationalisation, London: Palgrave.
8. See introduction by Schröeter, this volume.
9. J Clifton, F Comn & D Daz-Fuentes (2005) Empowering Europe's Citizens? On the Prospects for a Charter of Services of General Interest, Public Administration Review, 7(3) pp. 417-443.
10. H Schröeter, this volume.
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16. Whilst D Parker (ed) (1998) Privatisation in the European Union, London: Routledge highlights diversity of EU privatisation, J Clifton, F Comn & D Daz-Fuentes (2003 and 2006) point to some common, European logics.
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20. Schneider (2002) p. 39.
21. OECD (2005) classifies the new telecommunications TNCs as global.
22. As in OECD (2005).
23. Most of Telia-Sonera's non-EU investment is in Russia.
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25. See C Radaelli (2003).
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27. For a classic definition of New Public Management see C Hood (1991) A Public Management for all Seasons? Public Administration, 69, pp. 3-19.
28. H Schröeter (1994) 'Foreign Direct Investment and Mentality: the Nearby factor in Austrian, German and Swiss Investment' in H Pohl (ed.) Transnational Investment from the 19th Century to the Present, Stuttgart, pp. 205-226.