Research Catalog

Title

Public enterprises, unresolved challenges and new opportunities : publication based on the Expert Group Meeting on Re-inventing Public Enterprise [i.e. Enterprises] and their Management, 27-28 October 2005, New York.

Publication

New York : United Nations, 2008.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• United Nations. Division for Public Administration and Development Management.
• Expert Group Meeting on Re-inventing Public Enterprises and their Management (2005 : New York, N.Y.)

Description

ix, 143 pages : color illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

This publication examines the role of Public Enterprises in today's economy, especially within the context of the realization of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and their management, more particularly, the performance monitoring issues of Public Enterprises. The report focuses on conceptual issues, theories and models associated with Public Enterprises (PE), as well as on new management approaches relevant to PE in the contemporary world. It also presents a model for a public enterprise governance index (PEGI) and explores its possibilities in assisting on-going performance monitoring systems of PEs in several developing countries.--Publisher's description.

Subject

• Government business enterprises > Congresses

Note

• "Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Public Administration and Development Management."
• "ST/ESA/PAD/SER.E/69."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

• Available both in print and online.

Contents

pt. 1. Concepts and definitions -- pt. 2. Highlights.

ISBN

• 9789211231700
• 9211231701

LCCN

2008364185

OCLC

• ocn216780262
• 216780262
• SCSB-5395119

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries