In contemporary organizational settings, assessing and optimizing the performance of management teams is essential for achieving strategic objectives and maintaining a competitive advantage. Leadership structures are typically segmented into hierarchical levels, each with distinct roles and...

State-owned enterprises (SOEs) remain a cornerstone of Kazakhstan’s economy and growth model. However, SOEs’ quasi-fiscal activities conducted outside the fiscal framework obscure the overall fiscal stance, complicating macroeconomic management. This paper finds that the balance sheet...

We study the economic effects of a large nationalization program using newly assembled firmlevel data from Chile under Salvador Allende (1970-73). Using a difference-in-differences design, we show that nationalization substantially reduced firm performance and international business activity...

Smart government uses smartphones to provide services to beneficiaries. Organizations face huge obstacles in their attempts to create an efficient methodology for smart government transformation because of the need for successful strategies. Enterprise resource planning and cloud computing are...

This study examined how a company's tax exposure, conceptualized as a capital structure decision factor, influences the financial performance of state-owned sugar manufacturing corporations in Western Kenya. Grounded in Modigliani and Miller's capital structure model and drawing on trade-off,...

This study examines how state-owned enterprises (SOEs) manage reputational threats related to morally controversial issues. Analyzing three Norwegian SOEs-Norsk Tipping, Equinor, and Kongsberg Gruppen-over 2002-2023, we identify three distinct reputation management approaches: mitigation,...

O Atualização Económica de JIOBSão Tomé e Príncipe fornece uma análise abrangente do desempenho económico, desafios e perspetivas do país. O relatório está dividido em dois capítulos: o Capítulo 1, que se centra no estado da economia, e o Capítulo 2, que examina o papel e o...

This study investigates how authentic leadership facilitates innovation within the bureaucratic structure of Indonesian State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), focusing on psychological empowerment as a mediating mechanism and leader personal power as a moderating factor. A cross-sectional survey was...

The growing compensation disparity between CEOs and employees has become a global concern, underscoring the need for regulatory measures to ensure fair and equitable remuneration practices. Drawing insights from China's government regulation of CEO compensation (GRCC) for state-owned enterprises...

Performance evaluation frameworks are essential for monitoring and enhancing the performance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Nonetheless, the existing frameworks exhibit particular deficiencies in delivering a comprehensive assessment of SOE performance or facilitating significant...

We study the degree and nature of political budget cycles in public investments when two instruments are available: investments by core governments and, more indirectly, by state-owned enterprises (SOEs). While fiscal pressure on core budgets may induce politicians to shift election-induced...

This report addresses the importance of dividend policies for jurisdictions with profitable or potentially profitable state-owned enterprises (SOEs), against the background of current challenges in public finances and increasing pressures on SOEs to contribute revenues to the public purse. It...

The objective of this Integrated SOE Framework Assessment (iSOEF) is to inform the Government of Montenegro (GoM) on the performance and impacts of its state-owned enterprises (SOE) and municipally owned enterprises (MOEs) portfolios on the economy and to provide recommendations for reform. This...

Purpose This study examines whether CEO power influences the book-based and market-based performance of Russian companies when it is restricted by the presence of essential shareholders, namely, state and influential businessmen. Design/methodology/approach Managerial power is divided into...

State-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the Kyrgyz Republic play a significant role in the economy but also present potential fiscal risks. This paper assesses these risks through both aggregate and firm-level lenses. At the aggregate level, the total amount of liabilities of largest SOEs liabilities...

We provide a theoretical micro foundation for how much pollution (negative externalities) a firm will internalize based on the ownership distribution of its shareholders. Small shareholders, compared to large ones, want the firm to spend more on avoiding pollution since they suffer less profit...

This study examines factors influencing full (FP) versus partial (PP) privatization and how markets respond to government control in PP and FP firms. Exploiting China's 2005 NTS reform as a natural experiment, we find that treated PP firms experienced significantly lower post-reform performance,...

This article investigates the effects of board size on financial performance and the indirect effects of this relationship on social innovation (SI). An Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) model was run on a stratified random sample of 111 Italian local state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Data refer to the...

This study investigates how government policies affect the market environment and enterprise practices. We conduct a quasi-natural experiment, with a treatment group based on enterprises' investment circumstances to examine the impact of the Fair Competition Review System (FCRS) on enterprise...

This study examines the association between state owners’ monitoring incentives and the tax planning activities of state-owned enterprises. We distinguish between state owners that directly benefit from state-owned enterprises’ income tax payments and those that do not. In our empirical...

This paper examines the key aspects of corporate governance of stateowned enterprises (SOEs) through a comparative survey conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia. The research explores two distinct perspectives: the state's view on the necessity and governance of SOEs, and the...

In order to mitigate the risks of losing key personnel and their innate tacit knowledge resources, this paper explored a framework for reducing knowledge loss in South African public sector enterprises (PSEs) through the integration of knowledge management (KM) and human resource management...