Search for dissertations about: "state-owned enterprises"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the words state-owned enterprises.
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1. Incentives and Forest Reform: Evidence from China
Abstract : Chapter I: Forest Devolution Reform in China: A Trigger for Investment or Deforestation? I investigate whether and how the devolution of forestland to households in China triggered investment in forestland, and its effect on forest resource conditions. The investment analysis is based on a panel dataset of a two-round survey of 3,000 households in eight provinces before and after the implementation of the forest devolution reform, while the analysis of resource conditions is based on satellite imagery on forest cover and vegetation during 2001-2012. READ MORE
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2. Downsizing: Personnel Reductions at the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly, 1915-1939
Abstract : Downsizing is a phenomenon that remarkably seldom has been the subject of historical inquiry. This study investigates how a state-owned enterprise, the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly, reduced its labour inputs because of changed consumer preferences and mechanization in the 1920s and 1930s. READ MORE
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3. The soft budget constraint : the emergence, persistence and logic of an institution : The Case of Tanzania 1967-1992
Abstract : The soft budget constraint - today a popular metaphor - is a paradox. In socialist economies, it implies that the state tends to bail out state-owned firms in financial trouble, in spite of the tremendous performance problems of the entire system that result. When the system broke down, the soft budget constraint was expected to disappear. READ MORE
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4. Privatization Process and Asset Valuation : a Case Study of Tanzania
Abstract : This study examines privatization and valuation processes in the context of privatized state owned enterprises in Tanzania. It investigates the implementation of the privatization process and valuation methodology in a developing economy where the market system and its associated institutions are not fully developed. READ MORE
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5. Place matters : understanding the role of place in entrepreneurial ecosystems
Abstract : This thesis consists of four papers and an introductory chapter. Drawing on sociological theories of place, this thesis contextualises how entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) evolve, exploring how the socio-spatial, socio-economic and place-based dimensions of context interact across multiple geographies over time. READ MORE