Improving Public Enterprise Performance

Improving Public Enterprise Performance
Author: Victor Powell
Publisher: International Labour Organization
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1987
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789221055631

Discussion on public enterprise management and operations in developing countries.

Sustaining High Performing Public Enterprises

Sustaining High Performing Public Enterprises
Author: Silver Mugisha
Publisher: IWA Publishing
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2019-02-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1789060249

Sustaining High Performing Public Enterprises presents steps taken by National Water and Sewerage Corporation of Uganda, a typical public enterprise, to sustain a high performance momentum after over 15 years of successful utility reforms. Specifically, the author pinpoints key achievements during the period 2013–2018 including growth in geographical coverage from 23 to 240 towns, increase in connections from 310,000 to about 600,000; revenues growing more than three times and network growth improving from 80kms per year to over 2000kms per year. The concept of new public management (NPM) is used to set the scene for a case description of various initiatives and innovations implemented. A balanced scorecard framework is used to characterize the various activities. The book highlights a shift from over-emphasis on positive cash-flows alone to a balanced approach to ‘water for all’ citizens. The need to balance technical work and political aspirations is highlighted. Also featured is the nexus between utility operations and environmental protection to ensure sustainable water supply. The cardinal role of aligning staff needs to organizational needs and working for win-win solutions is also highlighted. Sustaining High Performing Public Enterprises presents strong lessons and conclusions for utility leaders and policy makers intending to reform their utilities to create value for citizens. It is also of value to academicians and researchers for scholarly studies in water and sanitation governance and management.

Managing Relations Between Government and Public Enterprises

Managing Relations Between Government and Public Enterprises
Author: Praxy Fernandes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1986
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

A guide to analysing and improving relations between government and public enterprises. The book is divided into 15 operational exercises, each one dealing with one aspect of the relationship and suggesting an approach to take in practice.

Handbook of Comparative and Development Public Administration

Handbook of Comparative and Development Public Administration
Author: Ali Farazmand
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 1160
Release: 2019-02-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780203904756

With contributions from nearly 80 international experts, this comprehensive resource covers diverse issues, aspects, and features of public administration and policy around the world. It focuses on bureaucracy and bureaucratic politics in developing and industrialized countries and emphasizing administrative performance and policy implementation, as well as political system maintenance and regime enhancement. The book covers the history of public administration and bureaucracy in Persia, Greece, Rome, and Byzantium and among the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas, public administration in small island states, Eastern Europe, and ethics and other contemporary issues in public administration.

Public Enterprise at the Crossroads

Public Enterprise at the Crossroads
Author: John Heath
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134949588

In many parts of the world public enterprise is in crisis. Privatisation programmes are being widely touted as the solution to many of the problems of inefficiency and slow rates of growth associated with public enterprise. This book discusses the underlying causes of those problems, and critically examines some of the solutions that have been adopted. Its geographical coverage is wide and it cuts across the political spectrum. The experiences of countries in four continents are analysed in an attempt to shed light on current dilemmas. Recurrent patterns are found; problems are frequently seen to be political as much as economic, and bureaucracy and administrative confusion is often found to be at the heart of poor financial performance.Yet since political aims, economic environment, and administrative and managerial capabilities vary so widely, universal solutions remain more difficult to define than universal problems.

Routledge Library Editions: Public Enterprise and Privatization

Routledge Library Editions: Public Enterprise and Privatization
Author: Various
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 4084
Release: 2021-07-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000398005

Routledge Library Editions: Public Enterprise and Privatization (14 Volume set) presents titles, originally published between 1933 and 1991. The set covers both public enterprise and privatization and the impact they have had in the developed and developing world from the start of the twentieth century through to the early 1990s. Written by key figures in the field, it will be of particular interest to students of business, economics, finance and industry.

Improving Public Management

Improving Public Management
Author: Dr Les Metcalfe
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 266
Release: 1990-12-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781446230107

Now in paperback in an Enlarged Edition, this volume explores the lessons of one of the most comprehensive attempts to improve public management. Metcalfe and Richards describe and assess Thatcher's Efficiency Strategy as an exercise in improving public management. They explain how the strategy has gone about improving administrative performance by increasing cost-consciousness in the use of resources and creating flexibility for managing change. They analyze major themes such as: decentralization, information systems and budgets as management tools, organization design, and the management of interdepartmental relations.

Public Enterprises In Peru

Public Enterprises In Peru
Author: Alfred H Saulniers
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2019-06-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 100030857X

This book helps fill the void in teaching materials about the Latin American public sector. It began as two case studies of public enterprises jointly carried out by the Office for Public Sector Studies of the University of Texas at Austin, which the author directed, and the Universidad del Pacifico in Lima. Over the years, the cases expanded into

Alternatives to Infrastructure Privatization Revisited

Alternatives to Infrastructure Privatization Revisited
Author: Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2016
Genre:
ISBN:

Frustration with the performance of State-owned enterprises (SOEs) has led to two rounds of reform: the first round, from the 1960s through the 1980s, attempted to improve SOE performance while maintaining public ownership while the second, beginning in the late 1980s, viewed privatization as the answer. Interest in the earlier round of reform has increased recently as controversy has slowed or halted privatization in many countries, especially for SOEs providing infrastructure services that are basic to everyday life and are thought to have elements of monopoly. This paper reexamines the earlier round of reforms, focusing particularly on efforts to increase the firms' capacity with infusions of human and physical capital, to strengthen managerial incentives through performance contracts and corporatization and to alter the mix of political and economic forces that impinge on the firm by strengthening the involvement of taxpayers, customers or private investors. The review suggests that these earlier approaches generated only modest success but that some of them, selectively applied, may be helpful in improving the performance of infrastructure firms that remain in public hands.