Articles · Vol. 18 No. 3 (1993): Africa Development

3 - Public Control and Public Enterprise Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Tanzania and Zambia

by J. Wagona Makoba

  • J. Wagona Makoba
    J. Wagona Makoba Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Nevada, Reno https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3617-4822 (unauthenticated)
    Johnson W. Makoba is a professor of sociology and recipient of the 2016 and 2019 Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship. He is editor-in-chief of the  International Journal of Technology and Management . Makoba received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in...
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Abstract

Cette étude examine l'impact de la politique des Etats en matière d nationalisation, d' africanisation et de substitution à l' importation sur la performanc financière et l'utilisation des capacités de quelques entreprises publiques de l Tanzanie et de la Zambie. Les résultats obtenus prouvent que contrairement à plupart des études qui présentent la performance des entreprises publiques en de termes monolithiques, l'évolution de la performance est évidente quand on considè ces entreprises au plan macro ou quand on les analyse à travers le type de gestion la nature des rapports Etat! entreprise. Cette étude montre que l'évolution de performance des entreprises (i.e. en termes de profit financier et d'utilisation de capacité) est liée aux politiques spécifiques de gestion économique suivies par la Tanzanie et la Zambie.

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Author Biography

  • J. Wagona Makoba, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Nevada, Reno

    Johnson W. Makoba is a professor of sociology and recipient of the 2016 and 2019 Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship. He is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Technology and Management. Makoba received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990. He has been teaching at the University of Nevada, Reno since then. Makoba is the author of two books on development in Sub-Saharan Africa and has published several book chapters and articles in the International Journal of Sociology of Law, Scandinavian Journal of Development Alternatives, Austrian Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Third World Studies, African Development, and other scholarly journals.

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