Innovation in State-owned Enterprises: Reconsidering the Conventional Wisdom
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- Filippo Belloc, 2014. "Innovation in State-Owned Enterprises: Reconsidering the Conventional Wisdom," Journal of Economic Issues, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 48(3), pages 821-848.
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Keywords
State-owned enterprises; innovation; privatization.;JEL classification:
- H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
- L33 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise - - - Comparison of Public and Private Enterprise and Nonprofit Institutions; Privatization; Contracting Out
- O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
- P12 - Economic Systems - - Capitalist Systems - - - Capitalist Enterprises
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- NEP-COM-2014-04-05 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-HME-2014-04-05 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
- NEP-INO-2014-04-05 (Innovation)
- NEP-KNM-2014-04-05 (Knowledge Management & Knowledge Economy)
- NEP-POL-2014-04-05 (Positive Political Economics)
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