The influence of the state on firms in the global economy is alive and well. States have
become dominant owners of companies in many countries around the world. Firms have …

Privatization—defined here as the transfer of ownership of state-owned organizations to
private parties—has attracted the attention of scholars across multiple fields. Privatization …

This paper builds on agency and institutional theory to extend the analysis of the effects of
ownership and control on R&D investments by considering the influence of different types of …

ABSTRACT Manuscript Type: Empirical Research Question/Issue: This study examines the
influence of firms' ownership structure on their technological innovation performance. First …

We study the impact of board gender diversity on firm risk‐taking in a developing market.
Our study is drawn from a sample of 30 Tunisian‐listed firms between 1997 and 2010. First …

Electricity sector liberalisation has coincided with a significant decline in R&D spending.
This paper reviews the industrial organisation literature on R&D and innovation to explore …

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 …

A very well-established economic literature maintains that state-owned enterprises (SOEs)
are inefficient as compared to privately owned ones (POEs). In this paper, I argue that SOEs' …

We examine the use of subsidies to research and development (R&D) in a mixed and a
private duopoly market. We show that the socially optimal R&D subsidy is increasing in the …

Technology adoption is crucial to address pressing public policy issues such as climate
change, but the role of ownership structure in adoption decisions is not well understood. The …