Valstybinių ligoninių privatizavimas ir administravimas (VšĮ Vilniaus miesto universitetinės ligoninės atvejis). Visuomenės nepasitenkinimas esama sveikatos priežiūros sistema verčia ieškoti inovacijų šioje srityje, viena iš galimybių – privatizacija. Ilgą laiką buvo įprasta manyti, kad ligoninių valdymas turi būti tik valstybės žinioje, tačiau pastaraisiais metais paaiškėjo, kad viešasis sektorius nesugeba efektyviai joms vadovauti. Magistro darbo tyrimo objektas – valstybinės ligoninės, jų administravimas, iškylančios problemos, jų sprendimo būdai, vienas jų privatizavimo taikymas. Pasirinktinai tiriama VšĮ Vilniaus miesto universitetinė ligoninė. Taikant teorinius ir empirinius metodus darbe išanalizuota privatizavimo samprata, procesas jo reikšmė sveikatos priežiūros įstaigų reformoje, atskleistas valstybinių ligoninių privatizavimo poreikis, aptarti pagrindiniai būdai ir juos reglamentuojantys įstatymai, įvertinta užsienio šalių patirtis sveikatos priežiūros įstaigų privatizavime. Atlikta pasirinktos VšĮ Vilniaus miesto universitetinės ligoninės veiklos analizė 2002-2005 metais bei anoniminių anketų pagalba įvertinta visuomenės nuomonė ligoninės privatizavimo klausimu. Lietuva neturi valstybinių ligoninių privatizavimo patirties, tai lemia ne tik teisinės bazės trūkumas, bet ir prieštaringas privačios iniciatyvos visuomenėje vertinimas. Valstybinių ligoninių privatizavimas traktuojamas kaip siektinas, tačiau kartu ir gąsdinantis procesas. Tai atspindi VšĮ Vilniaus... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Privatisation and administration of state hospitals (The case of Public Office University Hospital of Vilnius City). The society’s dissatisfaction of present system of health care forces to search for innovations in this field; the privatisation is one possibility to change the situation. It is common that hospitals should be administrated by state, but of late years it has become clear that public sector is not capable to run hospitals effectively. The object of investigation of the Master work is state hospitals and their administration, the problems and the ways to solve the problems, including applying privatisation as the way to solve the problem. Public Office University Hospital of Vilnius City is investigated for choice. Applying theoretical and empiric methods, there are analysed the conception of privatisation, its process and significance for the reform of institutions of Health care in this work; also there is disclosed the need of privatisation of state hospitals, discussed the main ways and the, regulating them, appraised the experience of foreign countries in privatisation of state hospitals. It is fulfilled the analysis of Public Office University Hospital of Vilnius City in 2002-2006, also, referring to the anonymous questionnaires, it is appraised the opinion of the society about privatisation of the hospital. Lithuania has no experience in privatisation of state hospital; this is caused not only of the lack of legal basis, but also of contradictory... [to full text]

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For over a decade, the Saudi government has been actively promoting a privatisation strategy for Saudi sport clubs as part of ongoing wider policies aimed at stimulating the national economy through the privatisation of various economic sectors. Other ‘declared’ underlying objectives of the privatisation plan include reducing direct government spending, diversifying sources of income and increasing efficiency through greater involvement of the private sector. However, despite multi-millions of investments and years of political rhetoric, the progress made to-date has been very limited. This study adopts a theoretical framework based on the three key domains of strategising (i.e. the 3Ps) (e.g. Whittington, 2006; Jarzabkowski and Spee, 2009). Strategising differs from conventional strategy in that it regards strategy work as a pattern in a stream of goal-directed activity (Johnson, Melin, & Whittington, 2003; Jarzabkowski, 2005; Whittington, 2006). The deployment of the strategy-as-practice research agenda is recent and limited in sport management research, and empirical type of studies are noticeably scant. Hence, this study addresses part of this existing gap. On a practical level, the study puts forward policy recommendations towards enhanced understanding of strategising dynamics within sport organisations. Through holistic, embedded multiple-case study research design, comprising a sample of eighteen case studies, this study addresses the relationship between strategy and strategising through all phases of the strategy journey. In particular, the study aims to reveal how strategising practices are manifested in the strategising work around the privatisation of Saudi sport clubs and evaluate the various strategising actors’ roles at macro, meso and micro levels. The main findings are reported along two broad levels, firstly in terms of the three domains of strategising, and secondly with regards to the key patterns of strategising. Consistent with the predictions of theoretical framework, overall findings provide strong evidence for the key role played by the 3Ps and their strong interconnectedness within the overall dynamics of the strategising activity system. The second level of findings documents the dominance of the procedural type of strategising, which is mainly enacted through the widespread use of long-established formal administrative practices that came to typify centralised policymaking in Saudi Arabia. These findings are not surprising and are entirely consistent with existing evidence (for example, Jarzabkowski, 2003; Whittington, 2003) when considering the high levels of ‘embeddedness’ and ‘persistence’ of this type of strategising within the wider functioning and organisational culture of these entities. Hence, various facets of this prevailing situation could be seen as a the major obstacle in the face of any attempt to successfully introduce new ways of organising and strategising within the Saudi sport sector in general, and the sport club privatisation policy in particular.

Cette thèse étudie les réformes de privatisation des infrastructures dans les pays en voie de développement (PED) d’Afrique Sub-Saharienne (ASS). Son objectif est de comprendre les raisons de la longévité de ces réformes qui, initiées au milieu des années 1990, sont encore d’actualité aujourd’hui (Figure 1) alors que leurs effets sont controversés. La privatisation est entendue au sens de l’OCDE (2004) comme la participation du secteur privé dans la gestion, le financement et la propriété d’une entreprise publique. Le concept d’infrastructures fait référence à toute installation utilisée pour fournir de l’électricité, de l’eau et de l’assainissement, des télécommunications et des services de transports (Estache, 2007). Il y a deux raisons majeures de s’intéresser aux réformes de privatisation des infrastructures dans les pays d’ASS. La première tient à l’importance des enjeux politiques et économiques associés au développement des infrastructures en ASS. Les infrastructures sont d’une importance cruciale pour le développement économique des PED car elles contribuent sensiblement à la croissance économique et à la réduction de la pauvreté via l’accès des entreprises et des particuliers aux services d’eau, d’électricité, de transports et de télécommunications. Or, en raison d’un manque d’investissement les réseaux d’infrastructures africains sont les moins développés au monde. Les pays d’ASS sont aujourd’hui confrontés au besoin urgent de les financer. Depuis les années 1980, l’écart se creuse entre l’offre qui stagne et la demande d’infrastructures qui augmente fortement ; cela génère un manque à gagner en termes de croissance économique pour l’Afrique dont l’importance s’accroit au fil des ans. Le développement des infrastructures africaines est donc impératif et implique le besoin de politiques de développement efficaces. […] / No English summary available.

Since 2002 Taiwan has transformed its cultural policy, following the lead of the UK's creative industry discourse in particular and neoliberal policy regimes in general. This thesis investigates the processes through which neoliberal thinking shaped changing cultural policy and the impact this has had on cultural workers and practices in Taiwan s cultural landscape. I examined policy making documents and interviewed a range of involved actors, including government officials and cultural workers to learn more about the policy process and its impact. The research argues that the creative economy has heavily influenced the development of cultural policy discourse and generally failed to promote the public interest in Taiwan. The results of neoliberalisation have been embodied in several salient characteristics such as the privatisation of public space, marketisation of public subsidy and investment, commercialisation of higher education, and flexibilisation of cultural labour market. I argue that cultural policy needs to be reshaped to represent the public interests and diversity of our cultural landscape.

The thesis analyses how telecommunications unions in Australia and Taiwan struggled for their members ' interests in response to privatisation during 1996 - 2004. The thesis makes an argument that union effectiveness is based on its responses rather than external environments ; and although unions ' strategic choices are influenced by institutions, what is significant is to trace out the reciprocal interconnections between the two. The thesis highlights the significance of union leaders ' decisions and membership participation during privatisation. In its early chapters the thesis explores the historical background, and relevant theory about union strategies and effectiveness. In addition the early chapters explore the state of Australian and Taiwan public sector unions, to set the context for a discussion of contemporary Australian and Taiwan telecommunications unions ' responses during privatisation. In later chapters the concept of effective trade unionism ( defined as the capacity of a union to reproduce itself as a collective organization ) is explored in terms of the union responses to privatisation in both countries. Whether the CPSU, the CEPU, and the CTWU protected members ' interests centres around two main questions : ( 1 ) did union strategies delay or stop the progress of privatisation ? ( 2 ) did union leadership improve job security, public servant status, wages and working conditions for their members while partial privatisation was underway ? In order to evaluate effective trade unionism in a comparative perspective, there are two levels of analysis in this thesis. Firstly, there is a comparison of the CPSU, the CEPU, and the CTWU in terms of three aspects ( membership density, financial strength, and the overall structure of the union ). Secondly, there is a comparative analysis of the CPSU, the CEPU, and the CTWU in terms of seven union strategic choices during privatisation. In summary, the responses of two telecommunications unions in Australia and Taiwan to privatisation illustrate the old Chinese old adage : ' If you don ' t fight, you lose ! ' But the way in which unions fought privatisation were many and had to be suited to their circumstances. Importantly, unions in Australia and Taiwan can learn from each other ' s successful experiences in a restructuring environment, such as privatisation. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--School of Social Sciences, 2006.

À partir des années 80, le régime international des télécommunications a subi un grand bouleversement. Le contrôle que les États exerçaient sur les télécommunications a été redéfini avec la privatisation des monopoles publics et la dérégulation des monopoles privés dans ce secteur. Le néolibéralisme, qui plaide pour un réaménagement du rôle du secteur privé par rapport au secteur public, a affecté de manière importante les télécommunications mondiales. Une nouvelle structure du régime international des télécommunications est apparue, ce qui s'est répercuté sur l'ensemble des pays de l'économie mondiale. Cependant, les processus de changements dans le secteur des télécommunications diffèrent d'un pays à l'autre, même s'iIs convergent vers l'acception de principes et de règles similaires. À ce titre, il est intéressant d'analyser le processus de changements des télécommunications mexicaines afin d'analyser le processus d'ajustement de l'économie nationale en liaison avec le nouveau régime des télécommunications. Ce mémoire examinera ainsi les transformations des télécommunications mexicaines (1989-2006) afin de comprendre les facteurs qui ont été déterminants dans les changements des télécommunications mexicaines et qui, aujourd'hui, structurent le fonctionnement actuel du marché des télécommunications du pays. Avant de procéder à notre analyse, nous situerons le choix de notre approche, notre cadre théorique ainsi que notre méthodologie (chapitre 1). En premier lieu, pour comprendre l'origine des réformes des télécommunications mexicaines, nous étudierons la privatisation de Telmex durant la période 1989-90 (chapitre II). Nous analyserons le rôle joué par la nouvelle entente que ce gouvernement a établie avec le secteur privé en montrant qu'elle a été le moteur du processus de privatisation de Telmex. En effet, cette entente a été le facteur déterminant du processus de privatisation. En second lieu, pour comprendre l'évolution des télécommunications mexicaines, ce mémoire analysera la libéralisation des télécommunications (chapitre III). Nous étudierons le comportement néo-mercantiliste du gouvernement mexicain dans le secteur de télécommunications en analysant l'ïnterrelation entre les politiques adoptées par le gouvernement mexicain dans la régulation des télécommunications et la croissance économique du Grupo Carso. Nous examinerons notamment l'impact du comportement first-mover de Telmex et des barrières à l'entrée érigées par le gouvernement mexicain sur la nouvelle structure des télécommunications mexicaines. Cette analyse nous permettra d'observer la consolidation de l'entente entre le Grupo Carso et le gouvernement mexicain et d'évaluer son impact sur le marché mexicain des télécommunications, voire son impact sur l'internationalisation de Telmex et son expansion vers les marchés d'Amérique latine. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Télécommunications, Mexique, Libéralisation, Entente.

New Zealand's public sector reforms have been hailed as a model of theoretical consistency and coherence. The associated financial management reforms, known internationally as new public financial management (NPFM), were world-leading although they are no longer unique. The underlying nature and intent of public sector reforms have been the subject of considerable debate internationally. Early public sector reforms openly sought privatisation, often on ideological grounds. However, in the face of gathering public opposition, public discussion of privatisation softened. NPM and NPFM have been promoted instead mainly on more pragmatic grounds such as improving public sector performance. In New Zealand, the Public Finance Act 1989 is the key legislation underpinning the financial management reforms. The Act delegates regulatory powers to the Treasury and, over time, a considerable body of secondary regulation, including accounting rules, has been developed. However, this secondary regulation, and its contribution to the success or otherwise of the public sector reforms, has not been examined in detail to date. In 1999, New Zealand s Controller and Auditor-General suggested that the financial management system erodes government departments resources and that somehow this resource erosion escapes parliamentary scrutiny. The Treasury, on the other hand, defended the foundations of the financial management system as solid, arguing that retention of the existing framework would allow further and faster progress towards improved performance and value-for-money than would be achieved by a new set of reforms. This debate prompts questions whether and, if so, how and why a financial management system, ostensibly implemented to improve the performance and accountability of the public sector, could be linked to such effects, and whether parliamentary scrutiny is indeed avoided. This thesis examines the secondary regulation and explains the development of the financial management system with the intention of answering those questions. The analysis undertaken in this thesis suggests that New Zealand's public sector financial management system fabricates the conditions under which privatisation initiatives might be accepted for pragmatic reasons. The erosion of departments financial resources is an essential mechanism in that fabrication process. As this system has developed, the time available for parliamentary scrutiny has reduced and the Controller and Auditor-General s controller function has been eroded, while the control and discretion exercised within the Treasury has increased. Arguably, these developments have helped to conceal the system s privatising intent. The thesis identifies features of the financial management system used to rationalise the financial resource-eroding processes. It also notes that if New Zealand's financial management system is no longer unique, then other NPFM systems may contain a similar combination of features.

The expansion of prison privatisation presents distinctive traits. One of them is its peculiar temporal expansion in a comparative point of view. This research focuses on the intrastate temporal expansion and more specifically in the case of England and Wales. What is researched is the reason behind the delay in the emergence of prison privatisation, in other words the asynchrony between the introduction of general and prison privatisation policies. This Thesis rejects explanatory frameworks based on historical analogies, pragmatic concerns or economic arguments and puts the explanation in a discourse of political interaction. In this framework, previous approaches related to the concept of globalisation, commodification of citizenry and political culture do not provide either suitable analytical tools in explaining the asynchrony in question. This research, instead, aims to bring forward the class struggle as catalytic agent in criminal justice system developments using a Structural Marxist concept of the State and its transformations. In the Capitalist Mode of Production the State acquires a unifying role among the contradicting classes by promoting the supposed general interest of the society, in order to allow the continuation of class domination and labour exploitation. This is feasible through the constantly unfolding hegemonic strategy which organizes the cohesion of the power bloc and disorganizes the dominated classes. Hegemonic strategy substantiates in the State Apparatuses which is not just a tool for policy making but rather a point where contradicting class powers condense; policy formation as such reflects the vector of class power in the apparatuses. Hegemonic strategy is set in motion by the State Personnel which is relatively independent knot in the transmission of domination between the power bloc and the dominated classes. State transformations are indications of this strategy since they inscribe in the structure of the State the vector of the class struggle. Hegemonic strategy took interesting contours after the mid-‘60s. The capital over-accumulation crisis on the one hand and on the other Authoritarian Statism promoted extensive State transformations as in the case of privatisations. Massive reactions, however, caused by the labour movement, required their containment and consequently a smoothly operating criminal justice system. The entrenchment of prison officers, therefore, from the wider changes in the labour status became crucial and a state transformation in itself, although by absence. This explains the delay of prison privatisation which appears indeed at the end of a long socially unstable period.

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