The multiple logics of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs)
2025-26
Six logics to consider, analyse, discuss via case/country studies
- Governments have various policies to be implemented by SOEs.
- Governance mechanisms have been established to link SOEs to the government owning them.
- Core technology of a SOE and capacity.
- Strategy, strategic plans and processes around them.
- Public entrepreneurship.
- Commercial oriented objectives.
Papers can address these six logics from different theoretical and empirical perspectives.
Coordinators
Luc BERNIER, University of Ottawa, Canada
Anna THOMASSON, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Proposed Timetable (2025-26)
- June 2025: Launch of the call to participate (ongoing possibility to join the project)
- June 2025: Launch of the Call for Papers in the Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics – APCE (call closing on 15 September 2025)
- Autumn 2025: Online meetings of the Working Group (agreeing on the interview grid, approaching the stakeholders, exchange about first findings, …)
- January 2026: 1 Workshop (with the APCE potential contributors)
- 2026: possible additional events
- 5-8 October 2026: 35th International Congress of CIRIEC (Montreal, Canada): presentation of results
Publication of the work
Several outlets are foreseen:
- A Special issue (2027) of the Scientific Journal, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics – APCE
- CIRIEC Working Papers (peer-reviewed)
- A Book with empirical studies, possibly with Routledge
Detailed project HERE (version 27 May 2025)
