Management Practices and the Partial Government Ownership of Firms in the Middle East and North Africa Region
A wealth of evidence has shown the positive effects of better management practices on firms. More recent evidence has highlighted that ownership matters for several developing and advanced economies. However, this relationship has not been studied...
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
World Bank, Washington, DC
2022
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099519405102223959/IDU014e1092004c25043920aeff0b63da6b2febc http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37523 |
| id |
okr-10986-37523 |
|---|---|
| recordtype |
oai_dc |
| spelling |
okr-10986-375232022-06-11T05:10:36Z Management Practices and the Partial Government Ownership of Firms in the Middle East and North Africa Region Islam, Asif M. Gatti, Roberta FIRM MANAGEMENT PARTIAL GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP OF FIRMS GOVERNMENT MANAGEMENT PRACTICES SUSTAINABLE GROWTH GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP MANAGEMENT PRACTICES BETTER BUSINESS RESULTS COMPETITIVENESS BUSINESS POLITICAL CONNECTIONS PERFORMANCE INCENTIVES A wealth of evidence has shown the positive effects of better management practices on firms. More recent evidence has highlighted that ownership matters for several developing and advanced economies. However, this relationship has not been studied extensively for economies in the Middle East and North Africa, a region where the presence of the government in the productive sphere looms large. This study contributes to this gap in the literature by exploring how partial government ownership can influence the management practices of medium and large formal firms in the Middle East and North Africa. Using two waves of Enterprise Surveys undertaken in 2013 and 2019/2020, the evidence points at a negative relationship between partial government ownership and management practices in the developing Middle East and North Africa region. A subsample of panel firms confirms these findings. Analysis conducted for firms surveyed in Europe and Central Asia in the same time frame does not show a similar negative relationship between partial government ownership and management practices, highlighting regional heterogeneity. 2022-06-10T18:24:43Z 2022-06-10T18:24:43Z 2022-06 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099519405102223959/IDU014e1092004c25043920aeff0b63da6b2febc http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37523 English Policy Research Working Papers;10062 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Middle East and North Africa |
| repository_type |
Digital Repository |
| institution_category |
Foreign Institution |
| institution |
Digital Repositories |
| building |
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository |
| collection |
World Bank |
| language |
English |
| topic |
FIRM MANAGEMENT PARTIAL GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP OF FIRMS GOVERNMENT MANAGEMENT PRACTICES SUSTAINABLE GROWTH GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP MANAGEMENT PRACTICES BETTER BUSINESS RESULTS COMPETITIVENESS BUSINESS POLITICAL CONNECTIONS PERFORMANCE INCENTIVES |
| spellingShingle |
FIRM MANAGEMENT PARTIAL GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP OF FIRMS GOVERNMENT MANAGEMENT PRACTICES SUSTAINABLE GROWTH GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP MANAGEMENT PRACTICES BETTER BUSINESS RESULTS COMPETITIVENESS BUSINESS POLITICAL CONNECTIONS PERFORMANCE INCENTIVES Islam, Asif M. Gatti, Roberta Management Practices and the Partial Government Ownership of Firms in the Middle East and North Africa Region |
| geographic_facet |
Middle East and North Africa |
| relation |
Policy Research Working Papers;10062 |
| description |
A wealth of evidence has shown the
positive effects of better management practices on firms.
More recent evidence has highlighted that ownership matters
for several developing and advanced economies. However, this
relationship has not been studied extensively for economies
in the Middle East and North Africa, a region where the
presence of the government in the productive sphere looms
large. This study contributes to this gap in the literature
by exploring how partial government ownership can influence
the management practices of medium and large formal firms in
the Middle East and North Africa. Using two waves of
Enterprise Surveys undertaken in 2013 and 2019/2020, the
evidence points at a negative relationship between partial
government ownership and management practices in the
developing Middle East and North Africa region. A subsample
of panel firms confirms these findings. Analysis conducted
for firms surveyed in Europe and Central Asia in the same
time frame does not show a similar negative relationship
between partial government ownership and management
practices, highlighting regional heterogeneity. |
| format |
Working Paper |
| author |
Islam, Asif M. Gatti, Roberta |
| author_facet |
Islam, Asif M. Gatti, Roberta |
| author_sort |
Islam, Asif M. |
| title |
Management Practices and the Partial Government Ownership of Firms in the Middle East and North Africa Region |
| title_short |
Management Practices and the Partial Government Ownership of Firms in the Middle East and North Africa Region |
| title_full |
Management Practices and the Partial Government Ownership of Firms in the Middle East and North Africa Region |
| title_fullStr |
Management Practices and the Partial Government Ownership of Firms in the Middle East and North Africa Region |
| title_full_unstemmed |
Management Practices and the Partial Government Ownership of Firms in the Middle East and North Africa Region |
| title_sort |
management practices and the partial government ownership of firms in the middle east and north africa region |
| publisher |
World Bank, Washington, DC |
| publishDate |
2022 |
| url |
http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099519405102223959/IDU014e1092004c25043920aeff0b63da6b2febc http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37523 |
| _version_ |
1764487391046795264 |