Evaluation of public enterprises in developing countries: a social perspective
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The primary goal of this article is to suggest some ways leading to an evaluation of public enterprises.
The author starts by calling attention to the fact that the absence of an ampler understanding and uniformity, as regards the concept of public enterprise, is in itself one of the problems - if not the most important one - that hinder the evaluating of such enterprises.
He studies the question endeavoring to stress the problem of social responsibility of these companies, arguing that now, more than ever and in the face of contemporary premises, the public enterprises has to take into account interests of a social nature, the traditional production of goods and services being insufficient as its only concern. As a final observation, the author presents several personal deductions, all of them gravitating around the idea that "the social responsibility of a public enterprises has to be defined out the enterprise itself".
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