Municipally owned corporations (MOCs) are increasingly utilised to provide local public
services, but little remains known about their efficiency and effectiveness. In this article, we …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to deliver further insights into empirical research on
corporate governance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) by systematizing existing …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue and outline its major
themes and challenges, their relevance and the research opportunities the field presents …

State-owned enterprises make up roughly 10 percent of the world economy, yet they are
woefully understudied. This handbook offers the first synthesis of the topic since the 1980s …

The paper pursues a mixed methods approach of conducting both quantitative and
qualitative content analysis of corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports in two types of …

This article expands the literature on the rationales and governance of state owned
enterprises (SOEs). We show that SOEs could be seen as instruments of innovation policies …

Public enterprises are policy instruments that are “rediscovered”. In parallel, a separate
scientific literature exists on entrepreneurship in the public sector but has not focused on …

Public enterprises (PE) are important players in the global economic arena. Recent
empirical evidence confirms that more than 10% of the giant multinationals are government …

In this paper, we discuss the state of the art on the creation of arm's length bodies (ALBs) by
local governments. We make three main contributions. First, there are many different types of …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to contribute to theory of hybrid organizations, with
particular regard to state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and their ability to contribute to …