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The Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) youth organisation, the Communist Youth League (CYL, League), has an extensive grassroots network and approximately twelve million members in public and partially state-owned sectors of the economy, as well as a political mandate to promote 'youth' interests at work. This article examines the League's operation in the Chinese workplace by analyzing qualitative data collected during fieldwork in twelve different sites in Beijing and Zhejiang province. It was hypothesised that as League organisations are under pressure to represent youth-specific demands, their response would be similar to the Trade Unions, which try to simultaneously remain loyal to pro-management Party committees and act as grassroots channels for advocacy. The article finds that League cadres occupy junior positions in political, generational and workplace hierarchies resulting to their multifaceted subordination to more senior power holders present, namely the management, Party Committee and Union leadership. The institutionalised 'juniority' of cadres creates strong disincentives for pro-youth employee initiatives and leads to the disarticulation of a distinctive 'youth' agenda. This institutional 'gap' in workplace representation has direct implications both for the welfare of young employees and for the future of industrial relations in China.

Based on a study of 22 Flemish local governments and their respective delivery of elderly care, this article analyses the drivers of three local public service delivery externalisation options: corporatisation, public-public collaboration and public-private partnerships (PPP). The analysis reveals a combination of financial and economic efficiency underlying externalisation. Further, while political ideology appears to impact the choice for PPP, the findings suggest that externalisation is guided by pragmatic rather than political-ideological motivations. Overall, the results show that smaller and more financially strapped local governments are more inclined to choose for public-public collaboration and PPP. Rather than the overall financial situation of local governments being a underlying factor, the (potential) impact of the service-related costs on local finances drive externalisation. We also find that policymakers do not solely motivate their choices based on past and current situations, but also anticipate future challenges.

This paper is closed access until 30 June 2020. ; In this article we examine connectivities within the 'messy' organizational commons of sport, education and corporate partnerships. As scholars forewarn, there are currently key stakeholders within the commons that that have set agendas, occupied ideological and physical terrain, and legitimized a presence and authority. The intertwining of organizations here is an evident function of an increased symbiosis between sport, education and governmental and non-governmental stakeholders to carve out significant sector spaces, and exert authority and power over the creation, implementation and ownership 'collaborative' and intersectional work. Drawing on spatial theorists, Henri Lefebvre and Yi Fu Tuan, and examples from FIFA and the IOC, we present a conceptual framework of global stakeholder relations. Focusing of processes of thought, production and action, we offer an intersectional critique of the nuances of Sport–Corporate–Education nexus and consider possibilities and potential for sport education spaces to be reconfigured anew.

This research explores the institutionalisation of a new performance management system, namely the Balanced Scorecard in a Government owned corporation in Australia. A single exploratory/descriptive case study with embedded multiple unit analysis was used in order to examine the adoption of a balanced scorecard as an example of the process of evolution of a new initiative. It uses the concept of isomorphism to explain the initial adoption of the Balanced Scorecard. Further, it highlights the importance of the deliberation of both rational analytical approaches and legitimacy as a fundamental accompaniment to isomorphism in the continuing development of the new performance management system.

As contemporary universities become increasingly deregulated and neoliberalised structures, how is grassroots student political organising to adapt? What role could student organisers, working in coalition with academics, unions and communities, play in shaping the Future University? We argue that student organising has an even more crucial place in the site of the neoliberal university, working against both the corporatisation of the contemporary university, as well as rising neoliberal conditions in the broader communities within which tertiary education is embedded. These conditions, without doubt, have the potential to stultify student movements by burdening students with ever-increasing debt, and packaging degrees as a commodity with a market-determined value. However, we argue, the neoliberalisation of education also engenders an opportunity for students in shaping the Future University, through grassroots advocacy for staff working conditions, and for critical pedagogies that enable the integration of transformative social justice movements with academic theory. For us, the Future University is a space that nourishes critical and creative thinking, and produces students that are able to integrate theory with radical praxis. However, for this to be realised, the ideological function of the university, in justifying and naturalising hegemonic power structures, and the very meaning of public education, must be exposed and critiqued from the ground up.

In the post war period, telecommunications – being services of "general economic interest" – were initially managed by public administrative bodies in many Western European countries. With the rise of New Public Management (NPM) in the 1980s, these bodies were often transformed into public corporations or joint stock companies. Following corporatisation, the provision and the management of these services of general economic interest was gradually transferred to private actors. This paper analyses whether privatisation, as part of NPM reforms, has benefited the consumer. We have, therefore, compiled data on privatisation in the telecommunication sector for 15 European countries from 1980 to 2006. The data set covers the corporatisation process, as well as the transfer of the service provision to the private sector. Three empirical findings stand out: first, the reform processes have differed widely from each other. Second, it's not just the transfer of ownership to the private sector that has ensured efficiency gains and increased consumer benefits; corporatisation has done this as well. Third, efficiency gains have been transferred to the consumer, especially at the beginning of the reform process.

Intro -- Title Page -- About the Author -- Dedication -- Copyright Information © -- The Meaning of Corporatisation -- The Consequences of Corporatisation for Schools -- How the Book Was Born -- From Decree to Dispute -- How The People In Control Behaved -- What This Book Is For -- A Declaration of Interest -- Thanks -- Section I Schooling in England: How It Was, How It Is And the Men Who Changed It -- Chapter 1 Who Owns Our Schools? -- How Schools Worked, 1870-1988 -- From 1988-2010 -- From 2010 On -- The Roots of Privatisation -- Chapter 2 How Did We Get Here? -- Neoliberalism For (And By) Dummies -- The Privatisation of The World -- Privatising A Small School -- Privatising A Country -- Chapter 3 Who Did This to Our Schools? -- Where We Were In 2015 -- The Brightest And The Best Of 2010? -- Two Must-Haves For A Government: Ideology … And Competence -- The Man Who Came To Run Education -- Gove In Government -- Picking Winners? -- Praise the lords And Follow The Money -- Bankers And Other Heroes -- Preparing For High Office -- Dealing With People Who Know More Than You -- Re-Enter Rupert -- The Art Of Managing People -- Gove And The Implementation Of The Corporatisation Of Schooling -- Chapter 4 The Coming Of Corporatisation -- Who Is Michael Gove? -- Cracked (1)? -- Cracked (2)? -- Radicals, Renegades … Or Robbers? -- The Gove/Cummings Partnership In 2016-2020 -- What Does Michael Gove Believe In? -- A Nation For Sale -- Section II Capturing the Castle -- Chapter 5 Schooling In A Somerset Village The Scene Of The Crime -- The Village -- The Schools -- The Primary Schools Of The Hamstone Villages -- Chapter 6 The Curious Conversion Of Castle School -- The Nation's Schools -- Meanwhile, Down In Somerset -- The School Duly Converted On 1st March 2015 -- Chapter 7 Meanwhile, Elsewhere in England -- Meanwhile, Elsewhere In England.

Research on the use of municipal corporations to deliver local and regional public services has evolved significantly in the past decade. Most of this work addresses the performance of this service-delivery mode in relation to local bureaucracies. However, much less is known about the drivers for the adoption of municipal corporations in the first place. This article reviews the main determinants of adoption – service characteristics, institutional and regulatory settings, political constraints and financial conditions – and highlights the need for comparative research across countries. ; This work was supported by the Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia [UID/CPO/00758/2013]; Programa Operacional da Regiao Norte, NORTE2020 [NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000037 ...

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- List of Cases -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Halfway House or Revolving Door? Corporatisation and Political Cycles in Western Democracy -- 3 Governance of Public Corporations: Profits and the Public Benefit -- 4 Corporatisation and the Behaviour of Government Owned Corporations -- 5 Comments on Quiggin and King -- 6 The Role of Ministerial Shareholders in the Governance of Government Owned Corporations -- 7 Virtual Privatisation: Governance Reforms for Government Owned Firms -- 8 Comments on Whincop and Skeel -- 9 A Private-Rights Standing Model to Promote Public-Regarding Behaviour by Government Owned Corporations -- 10 Governance, Liability and Immunity of Government Business Enterprises and Their Boards -- 11 Complaint Resolution in Government Owned Corporations and Privatised Utilities: Some Legal and Constitutional Conundrums -- 12 Comments on Stearns, Horrigan and Zifcak -- Index

This collection of essays arose from a workshop held in Canberra in 2013 under the auspices of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia to consider the impact of the encroachment of the market on public universities. While the UK tripled fees in 2013 and determined that the teaching of the social sciences and the humanities would no longer be publicly funded, it was feared that Australia would go further and deregulate fees altogether. In the best tradition of the social sciences, the contributors have assumed the role of critic and conscience of society to present penetrating analyses of the ramifications of the corporatisation of the university as neoliberalism continues to occupy the ascendant position in the political firmament. The dramatis personae in these analyses are students, academics, managers and political mandarins with the gendered character of corporatisation an important sub-theme.