ESCP Europe

Item type

Book

Language

anglais

Pages

xiii, 255 p.

Publication year

1997

Collection

• Industrial economic strategies for Europe

Content notes

1.Privatisation: the conceptual framework --- 2. Brief histories of the organizational studied --- 3. Assessing performance: principles and method --- 4. Comparative efficiency and privatisation: the evidence so far --- 5. Privatisation and productivity --- 6. Accounting ratios and performance measurement --- 7. Estimating technical efficiency using data envelopment analysis --- 8. The impact of privatisation on employment and the distribution of business income --- 9. Privatisation and business restructuring --- 10. Summary and conclusions.

"Are resources allocated more efficiently through private ownership than through the public sector? The experiences of eleven newly privatised companies are examined to evaluate this hypothesis. With the Government's pro-privatization policies in place for over a decade, this is a prime time to evaluate theory versus reality." - publisher's description.

1.Privatisation: the conceptual framework --- 2. Brief histories of the organizational studied --- 3. Assessing performance: principles and method --- 4. Comparative efficiency and privatisation: the evidence so far --- 5. Privatisation and productivity --- 6. Accounting ratios and performance measurement --- 7. Estimating technical efficiency using data envelopment analysis --- 8. The impact of privatisation on employment and the distribution of business income --- 9. Privatisation and business restructuring --- 10. Summary and conclusions..