enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Corporatization - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatization

    A key purpose of corporatization is externalization. [1] The effect of corporatization has been to convert state departments (or municipal services) into public companies and interpose commercial boards of directors between the shareholding ministers / city council and the management of the enterprises. [5]

  3. State-owned enterprise - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-owned_enterprise

    A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a business entity created or owned by a national or local government, either through an executive order or legislation.SOEs aim to generate profit for the government, prevent private sector monopolies, provide goods at lower prices, implement government policies, or serve remote areas where private businesses are scarce.

  4. State-owned enterprises of the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-owned_enterprises_of...

    The United States federal government chartered and owned corporations operate to provide public services. Unlike government agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, or independent commissions, such as the Federal Communications Commission, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and others, they have a separate legal personality from the federal government.

  5. State-owned enterprises of Australia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-owned_enterprises_of...

    In Australia the predominant term used for SOEs is government business enterprise (GBE). Various Australian states also have GBEs, especially with respect to the provision of water and sewerage, and many state-based GBEs were privatized in some states during the last decade of the twentieth century.

  6. State capitalism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism

    State capitalism is an economic system in which the state undertakes business and commercial (i.e., for-profit) economic activity and where the means of production are nationalized as state-owned enterprises (including the processes of capital accumulation, centralized management and wage labor).

  7. List of government-owned companies - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_government-owned...

    After 1949, all business entities in the People's Republic of China were created and owned by the government. In the late 1980s, the government began to reform the state-owned enterprise, and during the 1990s and 2000s, many mid-sized and small sized state-owned enterprises were privatized and went public.

  8. Public sector - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_sector

    Complete outsourcing or contracting out, with a privately owned corporation delivering the entire service on behalf of the government. This may be considered a mixture of private sector operations with public ownership of assets, although in some forms the private sector's control and/or risk is so great that the service may no longer be ...

  9. Corporate group (sociology) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_group_(sociology)

    These assumptions affect their beliefs about what the proper concern of the government should be. A major distinction between different political cultures is whether they believe the individual is the basic unit of their society, in which case they are individualistic , or whether corporate groups are the basic unit of their society, in which ...