IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/stratm/v12y1991i8p631-641.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Do changes in organizational status affect financial performance?

Author

Listed:
  • David Parker
  • Keith Hartley

Abstract

In recent years there has been worldwide interest in ‘privatization’ and transferring government department functions to quasi‐autonomous agencies. This paper presents the results of a study of 10 organizations in the U.K. which underwent changes in their organizational status within government or which crossed the public‐private boundary. The focus of the study is the impact of these organizational status changes on financial performance measured using a set of standard financial ratios. These ratios did not provide a consistent set of statistically significant results. Organizational status changes in the direction of privatization do not appear to guarantee improved performance.

Suggested Citation

  • David Parker & Keith Hartley, 1991. "Do changes in organizational status affect financial performance?," Strategic Management Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 12(8), pages 631-641, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:stratm:v:12:y:1991:i:8:p:631-641
    DOI: 10.1002/smj.4250120805
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.4250120805
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1002/smj.4250120805?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Luc BERNIER & Louis SIMARD, 2007. "The Governance Of Public Enterprises: The Quebec Experience," Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 78(3), pages 455-474, September.
    2. Thi QuyVo & Duc Khuong Nguyen & Fredric WilliamSwierczek, 2014. "Corporate performance of privatized firms in Vietnam," Working Papers 2014-240, Department of Research, Ipag Business School.
    3. Huric Larsen, J.F., 2012. "Public firm incentives under asymmetric information and prospect of deregulation and privatization," MPRA Paper 39351, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. R Molz & T Hafsi, 1997. "Evaluation and Assessment of Privatization Outcomes: A Conceptual Model and Empirical Evidence," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 15(4), pages 481-495, December.
    5. Panagiotis Staikouras, 2004. "Structural Reform Policy: Privatisation and Beyond—The Case of Greece," European Journal of Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 17(3), pages 373-398, May.
    6. Richard Bozec, 2005. "Boards of Directors, Market Discipline and Firm Performance," Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 32(9‐10), pages 1921-1960, November.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:stratm:v:12:y:1991:i:8:p:631-641. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/0143-2095 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.