Essays about: "SOEs"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 24 essays containing the word SOEs.

  1. 11. THE CHINESE STOCK MARKET - Differences in performance in consideration to level of state ownership

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

    Author : Mathilda Ivarsson; Heidi Nordén; [2015-02-04]
    Keywords : Split-Share Structure Reform; State-Owned Enterprises SOEs ; Ownership Structure; Corporate Governance; Privatization theory; China;

    Abstract : We examine the success of the privatization reform in China by evaluating the changes in performance of the State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) after the Split-Share Structure reform in 2005, considering the changes in ownership structure. This study investigates how the ongoing privatization process in China is affecting the performance of SOEs. READ MORE

  2. 12. Transparency and Disclosure in Swedish State-owned Enterprises

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

    Author : Erik Waltré; [2015]
    Keywords : Transparency; State-owned enterprise; Corporate governance; Disclosure; Stakeholder theory;

    Abstract : There is a disagreement between the principles of corporate governance, which promote a transparent corporate disclosure, and the studies of business communication, which show an increasing trend in how a marketing function crowds out the transparency function of corporate disclosure. While this marketing function might be interpreted as a means towards attracting new investors, it could suggest that the marketing function has less impact on companies without investors, such as State-owned Enterprises (SOEs). READ MORE

  3. 13. A Study of Actual and Ideal Leadership across Different Enterprise Types in Shanghai

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Yihuan Chen; Yanting Cao; [2014]
    Keywords : Leadership; Chinese Enterprise; Empowering; Coaching; Employees’ Preferences;

    Abstract : Since the Chinese economic reform in 1979, there have been various types of enterprises being established instead of the period when the market was mainly dominated by state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Nowadays, except for the government (GOV) departments, the three main types of enterprises are state-owned enterprises (SOEs), private-owned enterprises (POEs) and foreign-owned enterprises (FOEs). READ MORE

  4. 14. The Landscape is changing-Icelandic state owned enterprises and corporate social responsibility (CSR): Assessing Landsvirkjun´s CSR strategy

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

    Author : Steinar Kaldal; [2014]
    Keywords : CSR; SOE; LV; ISO 26000; GRI.; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is increasingly required of companies. However, CSR at state owned enterprises(SOEs)has not received much attention in the CSR literature. This thesis has the objective to add to knowledge on CSR of Icelandic SOEs. The objective led to three research questions: Q1. READ MORE

  5. 15. R&D Efficiency in China: Can State-owned Firms Compete?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : John Boylston; [2013]
    Keywords : China; R D; R D Efficiency; Aerospace; Data Envelopment Analysis; SOE; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Can state-owned firms’ R&D compete with that of more nimble private and foreign innovator firms? This paper analyzes R&D efficiency in China’s high tech industries (i) theoretically, based on previous studies, and (ii) empirically, through Data Envelopment Analysis under both Constant and Variable Returns to Scale. Though Chinese state-owned firms can theoretically be R&D efficient in industries where the underlying science is well understood, a myriad of factors including persistent soft budget constraints and policy burdens mitigate the potential advantages – bureaucratic pre-screening and access to finance – that characterize state-owned firms. READ MORE