'Industrial Public Enterprises as an Instrument of Development Policy': The Nigerian Experience

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Title:	'Industrial Public Enterprises as an Instrument of Development Policy': The Nigerian Experience
Author:	Obi, A.W.
Year:	1985
Periodical:	African Administrative Studies
Issue:	26
Pages:	1-22
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	public enterprises Politics and Government Development and Technology Economics and Trade
Abstract:	After a brief sketch of the recent growth of the public sector in Nigeria, the author considers the rationale for and performance of public enterprises, some fundamental issues in; public enterprise management, and possibilities for reform. In Nigeria's experience, the elaborate mechanism of statutory checks and balances has tended to break down in the direction of excessive encroachment by higher authorities in the legitimate function of the management staff. This ultimately has accounted for the poor economic performance of many public enterprises. Given the nature of the socio-political factors involved, public enterprise reform should be seen not in terms of institutional or organizational changes, but in terms of the type and number of industries that should be under government control. Notes, sum. in French (p. 1) and Arabic (p. 3).