JURNAL FORDEMA VOL 8 NO 2 NOVEMBER 2008

FORDEMA

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{FoRUM DOSEN EKONOMI MANAJEMEN dan AKUNTANSI}
Volume 8 Norho. 2. November 2008

LEMBAGA PENERBIT FAKULTAS EKONOMI
UNIVERSITAS MUHAMMADIYAH PALEMBANG

FORDETA
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Nomor 2, November2oo8

( Forum Dosen Ekonomi llianajem€n dan

Volume 8

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dl b dang manalemen dan slud pembangunan . seperli lsnurhadi tentan! Determ nants 0f
operating Performance 0f [/alaysan State Owned Enterprses After Prvatzaton Barnbang
Widagdo dan Sugiarti. tentang, Model Pemberdayaan Ke uarga M sk n di W ayah Sub Urban
Daam PerspektifGender, Hafta Wazol tentang Pengaruh PDRB,Jumlah Penduduk dan Jum ah
Kunlungan Pasen Terhadap Penerimaan Retrlbus Peayanan Kesehatan (S!atu Kasus pada
Dnas Kesehatan Prov. Sumatera Seatan) R. lvulyo Hendarto dan Hastarini Dwi Atmanti
Kajian Terhadap Pernbentukan Daerah Olonom Earu dan bu Kota Daerah Purwadi Hubungan
Penddikan Dar Peatthan Serta Kompensasi Terhadap Kinerja Anggota Satuan Pois Pamong
Prala Kota Palembang Didik Susetyo tentang, Analiss DanaAlokasi um!m Dan Upaya Fiska


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Efesiens Perubahaan Dan Orientas Kerjasama Terhadap Komitmen Program Serla
Pengaruhnya Terhadap Kinerja Pimpifan, Sapta Dyah Puspjtarini dan Antariksa
Budileksmana tentang Pengaruh Corpante Saciai Respanslb/iity Terhadap Nila Perusahaan
Dengan Kepem likan lvlanajemen Dan T pe ndustri Sebagai Varabel Pemoderas Karyanti dan
Suryo Pratolo, tentang Pengaruh Kualitas Auditor Kondis Keuangan Perusahaan Op n Aud I
Tahun Sebelumnya Perlunbuhan Perlsahaan Daf Debl Det'ault Terhadap Kemungk nan
Penermaan 0p nlAud I Gaing Cancern
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114

Pengaruh PDRB,Jumlah Penduduk dan Jumlah Kunjungan Pasien Terhadap
Penedmaan Relribusi Pelayanan Kesehatan (Suat! Kasus Pada Dinas
(esehatan Prov. Sumatera Se atan)
Hatta Wazol

131

Kajian Terhadap Pernbentukan Daerah olonom Baru dan lbuKota Daerah
R. Mulyo Hendarto dan Hastarini owi,qtrnanti

145 - 152

Penghargaai, Peilaku Pmpinan, perilaku Tim Kerja, Komitmen organisasi,
Efesiensi Perubahaan Daf oientas Ketasama Terhadap KomitTen Program
Serta Pengaruhnya Terhadap Kinerla Pimpinan
Welly

153-172

Detefninants Of operaling Performance 0f ilalaysian State-owned
Enterpises After Pivalizatio n

173 182

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lsnufiadi

Kemungkinan

;,_j -a-::-!un

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Bambang lrvidagdo dan Sugiarti

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Praklik Ak!nlansiPada Perusahaai Skala l4enengah DiKola Palembang
Dian Putri Maharani dan Sa'adah

Hubungan Pendidkan Dan Pelatihan Serta Kompensasi Terhadap Kineia
Anggota Satuan PolisiPamong Praja Kota Piiembang

se a u kami

183 - 196

Pulwadi

',:!ember 2008

Pengaruh Copolrle Socla/ Responsibi,ryTerhadap Nilai Perusahaan Dengan
Kepemilikan l\,4anajemen Dan Ipe lndusti Sebagai Vaiabel Pemoderasi
Sapta Dyah Puspitarini dan Antadksa Budileksmana

197 210

Analisis Dana Alokasl Umum Dan Upaya Fiskal Kola Palernbang

211

Redaksi
224

Didik Susetyo
10

Pengar!h Kualilas Aud lor, Kondisi (euangan Perusahaan, 0piniAudiiTahun
Sebelumnya, Pertumbuhan Perusahaan Dan Debl Defa//l Terhadap
Kemungkinan Penerirnaan Opini Audit Goirg Concern
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DETERMINANTS OF APERATING PERFARMANCE OF
MALAYSIAN STATE.OWNED EAIIERPRiSES AFISR PRIVATIZATION
lsnurhadir

ln A

4bsract

P vatizalion is the transfetung af ownership frcm state lo pivate ownerchip expeclinq Utat the
la -htu\Lat dno ur sa/, clar Io4 peiot na. ce ot sale.awned entd4.|hses cin be th1p191 s,i. Tp15
study focuses on the evalualion of apenting pefornances of the newly privatjzed finns which
lssued shares it capital mafuet. The research was ca ed out by investigating the opeftting
peiornance of lhe privatized finns aftet ptivalizatian and factots that are responsible on 1e
post-pivatizatian petonnance. The peformance were sfi/died throrgh stai/arcal analysis of lhe
dependency af several independenl vaiahles nanely peiormance pmxjes i.e. soft budget
canslraint, lraction of sharc sald, share allocaled to emplayee and top nanagemen! tcan cltaige
an dependent variables i.e. retun on sa/es (RoS.J, returil ol? assets_{RoA) and rctL lt on equily
(RAq, real sale antl net incane. The results shawed lhat the lactors thal arc rcsfionshle o; the
posl'pivalizatbn peionnance diffet depending on tt\e pefornance proxies. The factors
rcsponsible for ROS are lhe shaftlenn debt la Iolal asset and the share allocated to enptoyee,
the fftction af sharc sold and the share allocated to employee arc responsible for ROA, while ke
ROE is affecled by ke tap managenent lean change only. fhe real sale is iflue ced bv the
ftactian of sharc sotd and the share allocated to enplayee, while neI pnht is not affe.tcd by any
t'actat considered in this study.
Kewards: Pivalization, Stale Owned Enterpises
Privatization as a policy of transfening

nations such as the United Kingdom, France,
United States, and Japan
emergin0

.wnership from state to private or public
:ssets has been ofe of lhe most popular

coLrntdes

l.{argaret Thatchels conseryative
lovemment which came to rule United

Chile, Brazil, and i\,{exico in Laiin America,
Malaysia as one
thc leading
eConomy from eme€ing ntarket has embrace
privatization since eady 1980. The generally

ol

{ingdom in 1979 is regarded as ihe pioneer
Jf the modem privatization programs. The
rolicy has been adopted by many countdes
I which govemmenls frcm various politicai

lackluster performance and unsatisfactory of
staie-owned efiterprises iogethet with

rackgrounds enthusiastically sold state,
lwned erteprises (SOES, hereafter) to
significant
-.dvate investorc expectifg

economic

F

recession

ffst

his

announced
government's
privatization policy in 1983. lssuinq shares in

This

rivatizaUon policy has transfoimed the role
:f the state in the economy in almost every
euntry if every contifent from industrialized
'Senior Leciurer oi

c sis in ihe iom of

requircd the change in the policy. The then
l4alaysia Prime lvinister [,,lahathir l,lohamad

a

of the companies.

to

as

l\,4alaysia, Thailand,
lndonesia, and Philippine in Asla, as well as

:conomic policy lor the last twenty frve years.

lprovement

such

capital market is one popular mode of
privatization in l!y'aiaysia which usually

fance alth€ Facu tv oi Economics, Sriwjaya Llniversily

t7

ves '-.;ry largc rompan-os sLlah as
i,,1: eys n Alrlics. Telek.rnl [4ai:vsie, TV3
inl Froror aftoi-rtst otfers. Thsse
companes pay ve.y mpoiiant roe n Bursa
i.ia

lJalays a after prvalizaiof lJorrc 19!5).
Now after more than h,.'o decades of
privatlzation poJicy in many coitntries n the
vr'ord, the impacts o1the po icy have been a
terUe qrcLrnd to study. Privatization studies
ionr weslern countales pfmaily,,4restein and

eastem European countajes are

quite

increased efficiefcy

Pdvatization emLtlates

ertens ve bul quite fe\ry come liom emerging

couilry ike lf4alaysia For example,

Galai,

Jones, Tandon and Vogesang (1991) using
case study apprcach reporled an average fet

fare gains

in 11 of 12

because theoreUcaly it is

debates
a good policy to

improve the finn pedormance whtch is
lackng under state o\4ncEh p. Hor,lever,

privatized

empirical evidences show mlxed resulls. This

companies considered in lheir siLtdy wirich
equa on average 26 perce|i irs cofitpared to
lhe sales of lhe Jirn belore pri\,atized. U.tfg
large sample from many co!ntries arc rnaay

indrcatea that evidences are ifconcluslve and

we

ifdlstdes,

tr4egginson,

Nash and

van

therefore Froie researches on pdvatization
are wairanted and morc empical results are
need to beter understand and expain the
privatization phenom-.nof

Randenborgh (1994) Boubakri and Cosset

(1998) ard DSolsa and N4egginsof (19!9)
report that on average the pedormance of
S0Es is improvino upon prlvatizaton. On the
Dther hafd Haeer {2001), usinq a sample of
Czcch flrnrs, repods that the efllc ency and
the p.ofrlab ty
the ltms decrease

of

lmfired ately fo lovin! privatzation.

Ecke, Eckel and Slngal (1997) reporls

lhat the per{ormance of the Eritsh Aidines
lmproves Lrpon privatlzation Ramamll1i
{1-og7) aid La Poda and Lopez de,Silanes
(199S), usif! a single industry sample, also
repod
tavorabe peTformance upon

p

a

hard, l,ladin and
Parkcr (1995) find that only less than haf
Brltish firms they stud ed pedom better after
bclfg privauzed Newberry ard Polit (1997)
conclude thai BriUsh Eiectriclty Compafy's
(CEGB) restru.turinq afd prvatizalion was il
Vatization. On the other

facl vr'odhwh e, however, it could have

ifto acco!nt ol
fare. Fivalizailon program n

better impemefted takng
pL.rblics vre

beeal

'oae and sali i
jrirtt cf !eli ai l
.,hen a cofirl-.irl.
: :tnailt. no tf'J | !_ .
,Etc fid itght 1., I ,:
, surp us eft af[_
.rmpafy wil! l.: -:

sofle trafsiton countries pr nariy Russia ts
considered fai ed lt.iel is, 1999) Pdvatizait.ir
thrclgh mass and rap d scheftes as a tl.ese
trafsitlof econofiies ol fomer So,/ct LJnian
and Ceniral Easter E!ropea. countries
tumed oler assets to peop e who are lacking
incentves, skllls, and resouices to mafage
the flm ln th s insUtLtiona vaclurn,
prvatizaton can and has led to stagfation
rather thaf to better flnancial res!lts afd

The aim of this study is to eramine thc

effeci

ol

privalization on the

fnafclal and
state oy,/ned

opeiatrng pcdonnances of
efterpdses (SOE) and 10 evaiuate [re
detemlfanls that possibly responsible for ihe
variatior on the perfomtance. Thls study
contribLrtes in many aspects Fi$ty, thls
study employs a sirgle country data rvhich is
more homogefeoirs ihat lead to more
nreanlngfui concuson Secondiy. thls stldy
Jocuses on a soft budgel constratnt theory
introduced by Komai (1980) whlch is used to
assess the phenomenon of unsalisfactory
performances
many state-owned
companles if fomery planned ecorom es of
Eastem Europeaf Countries.

of

,emsetz,

l

theories.

Prom nent theories that support
privalization are notably property ight, public

:ifi

_ranagemeJrl

.

'efce agencY
.'
Prol
fus, the prope6 -!rnclship leads 1o'-fterlrses are i.:l
:_an pivale cnteli I

Other
,

:-

...hr.

e!! ol !teaknes!..

:.rLr

i0 choice thec.

:iat prL ic rnrra::
i trc irn5 w1 I Ll5-. tLllsue

ihef

ovn_

.:irLe ilrm s eijii . -r v.rtriilon a ,.

:nlTepTenC t15

ttr
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^rarimizln!-bure.:
.

r itrc

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ans. Unler .

-.ds

ic

-iiiess ons,
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il 5

i

fistet and key

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:
:

diIgenlserrcl '.:',ratizetcit faee.: :
: rrden 01 l]o ilicai , ':
-leia, llmits po i.::
:r

: I elpr :te's alilvh a!
I Pelsonal ag-.: .

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: the e|lcrprse t-:rnomc pedom:i

Theory Related to Privatization

Criticisfi of the extstence of stateovr'ned efterpdses {SOEs) is based on

1872

:rossman & Hrft
- ea y beneft lrcaa
:-. one v/il bf sir,

lh-" ji.ii
rr.t. 1980) arE-::
, objective f!n.t.
r(im ze and ii_re a: ,
I

.

tfre so-cailea

,

Driarrlr irirrrii

llt'l

chorcc

.

lnn1

:,.rntrias

., :cklng
' lrallaJc
r,:ftt |l,
:i!!fatlon

:

,

lrbai-"s
:

:

r

policy to
rrlr

ch

s

Nawe!el,

':s!lts. This

:: ratlzatior'l
_: :asults are

:

:

-

{trrlril llle

-.I;nllne the

'-ifc a

atld

:,a irate the

::rs!aforilre

- Tlil5 studY
, ; sty thls
lria

r/hlch

is

|l !ir.

iii rir

:fd :oft Iuilget coiislra ri:

: at'l

the finn would have a high poljtlca cost,

i'ran private enlerprises

whose buderi wriuld be distilbuted viiihin a

Olher schao of thought ihat shares 3
liew of weaknesses ol pub ic ownelsh p i9

the other hand, the cost ol thc baiout

fublc chol.e theory. This lheory suggests
Ilrat publc mara!ers, bureaucrats and
roiticars will use their .ontro af SOES ic
:rrrsue Ureir o!/n inierest ralher th3n the
state frrn's eificency {l.iiska.en 1971).

rrivatization alows prclt naxlmiz ng
:ntrepreneLrls to take the plaoe ci size-

r'rsnUslactory
:iaLe owled

-

lrcessions

I

s nrore !/orihwhie tc lobby
pjbl. ofJiclal foi flfd thai

:'rtsria liinlls polticlans ability tc redirect the
:rtemrlse's acUvites ii a way th:rl promcte

:

rcnomic pedormanie

The soft budllet constrairts lhecry

i::l

. .-.,e oi stale:, : based on
:: .. iirai suppolt
::.1,

riQhi P'Jblic

0n

asirecls

te

ated

to

bLrilCing

hypotfests) The i-.asof

why

nra|;t$.rrs arc able tc do lhart,,,rithort iacing

tlre thfeal of bankr!ptcy

i.

€latcd to

the

second disiofion, the so{t budget cotskalnt.
in any sltuation in wliich the lrms havc
enqaqed rn ur\vlse lNvestrncnts. ty/ill be in
the rntercst of th-A govemment io b?il thc ilmr
out ustng the prblic budgel. The rational ior
this r6les or thc fait that ihe birokruplcy of

wel-deired pclltical grolp, I ke

rrio|s.

On

caf

be

spread over the larfayels, a less organized

larger qror..rp

ln

socieiy, v/ith dversifcd

lnteiests aod preferences. The lhre3i of

is

non crcd blc under public
ovrnership beaa,Jse rh4 polilical kr5s llt,r{rlved
ln closlrg a pLrblicly owfed company is arger
tfrar trc pc itical cost of uslfg iaxpayet

bankruptcy

to bail it orl llhich result,r

il

soil bltd0et constralnts

io

lowei

.jssess

lhe

privatlzation proqrarn n tulal3vsia

ie d ligent search for ways af reducing costs

ri, pe$oralalcnda cladfes the objectives
'the enterprise, afd lead to enhaiced
:

i(inat

matinrizator of ""nrloyitent at the cost ol
rffr.ier.y 3rd polliica preslge lihe emplre

money

.r ratlzation frees efteprlses laom the
rrdef of politca infeieace afd non nadet

'

ve

rlfilclen.l/ und-"f p,rblc o\,/nership This is the
cssence of th s researh that is to app y the

'rira

:

!bl!.i

raximizing bureaLrcrats anC vole nrarimizlng

.. n sler and key

ttr;s study
ft thcory
,s used to

!,,ha

:.ilicans. Under pubric cwneEhip which
:ads to laage subsid es afd oth,"a

:::.j tr.i 'Nore

,

-im i(oflr;r, 1930) PLtb li mirn:!ers
teid tD repod io a oa iL c an lfd pursie
llre'r po ti.al careels rcofpolate t!. tlte
rrL.b

pont of vel.1l cl t]operty rlghls l.:iLr-aj
!1/ll:n :l comfant has ito cl-.ar r-.i lir:
.la maft no rfdlvidualor grorp r: a.e:rlt
speclfed rlht to cain any resdla Laf;llls
or supius eft aiter othcr cla ms arc net ttle
conpaNy v/l be less elficlefl (Aclraf a
Demsetz 1!172t Demsetz, 193E and
Grossman & Har1, 1986) Sncc ro ofe
dearly befelt lrom SOE s effcrert operat on,
no one r',/il be skcfgy motivated to lrold
maragenrent accouftablc for perfornrance,
ience agency problems will not be ieduced.
Ihus, the propedy ri.qht analyss of public
ownelshlp leads to ihe conc usicn that iublic
enlerprises aae l-"ss economcally eillaent

or0ai 1980) argu€s that dstoftions in both
.. objective fLrnction thai nranagels seek to
r(im ze and the constra nts they fac-. is dre

:

the so-aaed ,{i1 buaqet cofslrants

Methodology Research
The subje.t of this research is stale
o!{ned enlerpriscs privaiized thtough p!biic
olfering in Bulsa llalaysa Th€ :rarrrlc
rcpresefis tlre who c po!ulat0n of privatized
SOES tlrat are fully

and padally pivatzeJ

thrcu!h sfare se0e prl.,'aiizirlion (SlP).
Chooslng tris sarple is not viithoLti reason
The frnrs that are priralized in this v{ay
cont nue to genemte post
accoLrnUrr! data thal

issle fi|a:]ciaj afd

a€ di€ctly

comparab e

lti

Deternrifarrls

ofopeiafing.

.... .... ..

tsnu radi

to pre divestiture data. There are 41 slateowned efteiprises listing thef stocks of the
l,4ain Board of Brlrsa [,1alays]a. These flrms
v/ere privatized fron '1983 to 2001. However,
due to the uncompleteness of the data, ofly
30 iirms are managed to include in the

explaln the vadation in flrns'pedonnance
due to privatization, {lve modes (a set of
independent vaiiable regressed on five

sample.

dlfferent dependent variables) are developed.

Data weae collected from

vadous

sorrces, mostly f.om Burca l\4alaysia library,

Dataquest. a commerciai data provider and
rnvestment consultant in Pulau Pifang.

To

investigate factois that could

Based or the previous studles, the
rela{ionships between the dependent

:anrely the shon
SDTA) and the

e

5[4PL).

The s gnli
adepefdent vara

n general or

sLrb

ihe propositlon

ti

budget constraint

n the fofiir of

(

shl

ratio influefces si!

such as, stock issue prospectuses, Annual
Companies' Handbooks, KLSE on disk, and

variables comprising of the perfomance
proxies and ihe independent va ables are

of llflns upon pr

individual annual company repod. Otherdata
ate collected from intetnet sources such as,
l,ralaysia
website

linear in parameters. Hence, the models take
the form ofmuitivariate linear regression. The

iftroduced by Korl

Bursa

{http://iaww bursamalaysia.com)

and

individual companies' websites. Pa( of the
daia on daily siock price is procured from a
commercial data company
Pusat

i.e.

Kompuler Profesional

in Kuantan,

Pahang

and some old and rare stock price data have
to be taken out manually frcm stock daily
diaries in Bursa [.4alaysia- Otherdata such as
financial statement data are supplemented by
P=

d-

BSDTA -

/ILDIA

dependent variables consist of ROS, ROA,
ROE, rcal outp0t (RS) and reai net income

(Nl) while the jndependent vadables

supporis the theor

soft budget

are

Ihe Enpial

STDA, LTDA, SOLD, EIVPL and TOPMGT.

The

aegressed on

independent vaiables

are
these performance measures

and form multivarjate reg.ession models as

F

Constani
SDTA

111
LDTA

+ pTSOLD +

p

E[,4p1+

li

Top[.4cT + e

1.46
SOLD

after privatizaiion. Those iaciors conslst of
P= Average three yearpost privatization

pedomance mitus average thrce year pre
privatization performance (as measured by

LN EMPL

percentage of equity sold at initial offer when

TOPI,4GT

the finns are pdvatized changes in top
management team in the company around

Total Assets. SOLD=
Percentage oi equity sold by govemment.

the time of pdvatizalion, and sharcs allocaied
to employees at ihe oifer These factors arc

E[1PL = Share allocated on employee of the
llrm upon privaiization. ToP[,4GT = A dummy
variable that takes the value of 1 ifthere was
change in K€y top management like CEOS
and the managing direclot and 0 otherwise.

regressed

tem

Liabilities

:

Result And Analizyng

There are several factors identilied in the
Iilerature that are possibiy related to the
pedomance changes between beforc aFd

17t;

004

shod{erm and long{erm debt assumed
before the trnl privatized, debt and

Nl) SLTA = ShonLiabilities : Totai Assets. LLTA= Long-

ROS, ROA, ROE, RS and

lern

crlnl

on the

several proxies of
performance consisting of returns on sales

(ROS), returns on asseis (ROA), retums on
equity (ROE), real sales (RS) and real net
income {Nl) The results of the test for the

lve regressions are prcsented in Table 1.
The signincant independent variables
vary across regressions for each model
When retlrn on sales (ROS) is used as
dependent variable, there are t!!o
independent vanables that are siqnillcant

093
097
Ldt

tl

R?

F value
Prob F

a

Signilicant..t' at

The

19

rlumbe

hEs I
perfomance SL
ernployees

contradicted with

afd

Rapaczynski

difierent insider
pedormancei for

6

discemable reven!

Delerfir

: :::: prcvlder ard
r-:-: -an!l
'::: .- that could
:*: pE.formance
: -:.::s (a set of

on five
=J'::sad
.€:
efe developed.

{:L: siirdies, the
:-t depend,"nt

:; i_: perfonnance
..,]:'i rariables are
:'a€.temodelstake
a€a'regression. The
r$-i ol ROS, RoA,
ad real net income

r:

iffanance measures
:-qEssion models as

.

..

....

..

.lsnurhadi

namely. the short rur debts to total assels
(SDTA) and the employee sharc ownership

subsidles granted

(E[4PL).

enterpises in the loffner Sovlet Unior and
formei communrst counties of Cenfral and
Easterf Europe. Consequently the budget

The slgnlficant

of

SDTA

as

of lims upon privatization. This

an

rm

debt

assumed
and

;iu?ed, debt

i

a: ir t

offer when
changes in lop

rj

aL

te.company around
z,"d shares aLlocated
These factors arc

s
s

:

(ROA), retirms on
(RS) and teal net
oi lhe test for the

;:ntcd in Table

1.

!ariables

'iependeft
-s for each model.
tRCS) is used as

tiere are

hvo

tiai are slgniJlcant

should be hardened in order to discipline the

managemenls

of

state,owned compaties.

Holrever, the qovernment should be caltious
in implementing the policy as fot too hard

because

es

Frydman, Gray, Hessel and

Rapaczynski (2000) roted, the supposedly

suppods the theory of scft budget constrainl
lntroduced by Komai(1980)who argued that

govemment on stale owned enterp ses are

"hard" budgel constraints imposed by a

soft budget conslraints in lhe form of

not very elfective either.

Table

1

The Etnpiical Results of Regresslo, ,Analysls on lhe samp le of 30 privatized

Rosa r

RoA. t

Conslani 44.27 2.26" '19.45
SDTA
21.30 76'* 3 44
111
LDTA
I91 0.95 1.59
146
-0.59 -1.32 -0.27
soLD
0.04
LN EMPL
3.33 1.77- 1.63
0.93

TOPI4GT -0.33 -0.06

,0.75

lims

RoE6 r
RS, I
NF
-2.16* 19.50 1.29 0 51 0 t6 115
0.67 9.18 0.81 2.32 1.07 1.98
0.35 -10 33 -0.91 0 34 0.2C 2.34

42 -1.40 -0 07 -2.40* 0.02
2.30" 155 132 0.78 :.64*- C.18
,0 37 t.72 2 4S* 0.18 0 24 -0.57
2.41.

0

-0 97

R'

0 2590
0.1046

AdjR,

-=i.

;€reral Prcxies of
ai retlrns on sales

the

many

flnding

1

iI+e
- iactors conslst of

by goverfments as

rnaif cause oi the failure for

independent variabe to capturc soft budget
in general or subsidy ln pailicular sLrppods
lhe proposition that, to some extent, soft
budget corstraint or subsidy which manlfesis
in the fom of shod'run liabilities to assets
Gtio inlluences siqnilicantly the perfofinance

'.Jeai variables are

'Pi- end TOPIVGT.
rarables ate

rafts ofoperirling

slgiiii.ant

*-"

t.2115

0.3025

0.3170

0 0834

a.15f2

0.1;41

0.2360
0 0768

0.0845

0 2325

1.6118

1.5282

2 0820

0 1783

0 2185

t

*
at 1%,

Signilicant at 5%, and

The nunber of share allocated to
employees has positive impact on the
perfomance. Surprisingly, this result ls
contradicted with Frydman, Gruy, Hessel,
and Rapaczynski (1998) who uncover that
difierent insider ownershlp has dlfferent
pedomance; for employee owned iirms no
discemable revenue effect could be found.

1028

. Signiiicant at 10%.

l\4oreover, Liplon and Sachs (1990) argued
that dominant ownerchip by employees could

result

in the

perpetuaton

of

existing

inefficiencies. On the other hand, this ilnding
is in lin-" with Djankov and Poh (1998) viho

ilnd that prlvatization to lnsiders do

not

hamper firm restructuring. Fudher suppott
comes from Smlth, Cin and Vodopivec (1997)

111

t.::rrr rir

!r'fr

L!

f' llEriilf!

frnd that

emp

oyee cv/fershi!

s

e55n.iat-"d $lth figher va u-" addea.
Thls st!dy proves lhat lri l,,l;rlays a. ilr-.
empicyee olincrship has posittve relalionslt

l/il

pedonnance imprcvemeft whiah

!
s

rncons stent with evidefces of Frydman et a

(1!l,qil) and Liplon and Sachs (1!90). Oviner
cmployees ln [lalays a are far ffon] ftee rder
0v,/ner ifstead they support the managenreni

iovrard achievin! conrpanys oblectives by
perfaps workirq h3rder or iruttirrq every elfo.t
tcward ccmpany's s!ccess ll seems that lhe
empoyees as the ovJferc are arvare ihey
hale 10 give suppod foi their own beneiits

Long-term debts io total assets
(LDTA) a prcxy to capture soft .hudget
cofstra nts does nct seems to effect
performance change signilicant y. lt is
possibly that lhe solt budget is maily
accumulatng

in the fcnn oi

short term

l:rbilties rathcr than long term debis. The
percentage of share sold (SOI-D) by the
govemment and the ch?nge ir 1op
maragenreft team (TOP[4GT) is not
sigfificaNt e ther.

!1
iir

ii cd

dIe

Then, tlr s

fn.lin! rit:ry sL.rggest that

10 the llovemment reuctance

rnterierc

!,/

to

th the mafagenreft of

the

rs l,l'allanted.

A furnber of stridtes repotl that the
chafges in top managemeut aflect tlre

exierd rn aLrh-:
lhrs fact is rf

1997). The reasons for diflerent ilnding of this
study with those tv/o earlier studies could be

opposite ilndiN!s

explaifed

transition coLItirE.

as

foliows.

ln

fulalaysian

role very nudt

does

ma0agers in ili:
conkol. As a rE:: . :

fot

cccur rlght away when
privalizatlon implemented. lnstead

the
the

clran-qe in top manaqement occuls aroufd
the tim-" the pilalzaUof rnplemefted; either

performance change upon privahzation. lt is

0ther eXpl.

new leaTn to qet ne,,v manaitemeri taleft

old mafagemert Fudhemoie it is

considerng

se

eciing

vr'orth

prcfessiofal

franagement
privatzed
fev/
conlpanies so that the management does nct
have more lTeedom ir rnanaging thlj firm. t
is aso possible th3t the government ndeed
girve up sonrc contrc but fot as much as the
percentagc of o,,litershif sold afd hefce. the

t nres they are govemnteni veterans
The vaiabe SOLD has negative effect
or ROA vr'hich is ifconsisteni wth the public
.hoice theory Pubic cholce theory argues
thai the higher the eq!ity olvnerchip retaifed
{lo!r'er p-"rcentege of equ ty sald) is tlte hlgher

stiil

other word,
intervenes vr'ith

ol the

y

hiqher percentaqe of share sod does noi
reflect lhe contro haad over. This means

Ianage the c0':

bility of the govemmeft's
interJcrence cn the day to day frm's

the

poss

tr i:
ir. | "

nn

)etcise cenarf i.niy lor cefia I

n:rrneT

Tlrc

.

ittiferl]nce n t,i l
r.,t ie?d to I e ,/.: ::
15

Epoded in a

rl

The posll

managemenl team even from outside the

the
the

or li

necessatjy p(laLrra
On the other lr. l
roLtntltes, 0ltr; firanrgcrs gel rJ:
opportunily

!,/h ch at leasi \ail stdve to per{orm betler that

:

sejl l.rgher per:!

one ltear pror or cne year {olowing the
privatizatior l\'loreover, less thaf ha i of the
privalized companies change their top
managemeft position. Ths is a possible
reason \i/hy this variabe does not afleci

compafies as many if foi all the lop
Tnanagemefl in old state owned compan es
comes from govefilmefts sectois and many

prvatiTation

mrnterpads in 1',i

prlvatizatiof the change in top ntanagenent

managemeni shoud be rcplaced wlth the

gor.,emment

managernents i.

perfomance significantly (Badrerls, Boycko,
Shleifer and Tsukafova 1996 and Dyck,

worth considerlnq that in pnvaUzato|, the

in

llalaysia gc!cfirrnterfere,,l,iih d-.r ::
despi|: the faot it,:.
nalority of !Ni.:

conlpanies pad al prvattzatiof is not enoLlah
suqqestif! that cofi.pl-.ie or full Jrrvat zat of

predlcls thal the ntore contnl surrendered bv

does not llive up adeqlrate contrcl

J

peTforntafce
:
tirc io lor{ng er: :

not

It ls quite interestifg ttr.t SOLD does
not affccl ROS PubliD cholce theory v/hich

a goveTnntent iL.lds to esser ooverfrnents
lnterference of the managemeni vr'hich in
tufir !v ll improve efficiefcy. This tns gfificant
flndirg presenls afibiguoUS inte.prelaton:
there is a possibillty tlat the governmenf

opEration if tt,j ,
fo a notse faf,r - SOLD is pre.irli

ihal the assumpliof that lf1] more ihg transler
1,'felshiir the control is sLrrrc tder s noi

,..

:l4PL is also in.r :
:s prcdiltcd, iJ:.-r:

-.npitlca

sirdies

,r!tative eflect

.r ::

tievto|s shtdies r.:
'rrmea iransil arr
:lllopeal r?tiant5 j !
,:u{lies, employae , .
. ih \rorse pefioffl:-

:

do wittt the,r.-

:rrng tie p.ra:t.

r l,i:l

I

I

5 tlai

.r::i

inat

:: : _: ._.i the
: , ercugh
.iilzation

. -i

::at

--:_::iaat

llre
lhe

:r.. , Eoycko,
-: .lr]d Dyck,
: '-.n90{ths
:'-l:: Ccu d be
' i.'lirLaysian
':: .jr agement
:,r- fhen the

i:laad the
: :: - r:i aTound
r:.-:^tel ether
:: , _tillrg the

:, .

:3iofthe

-:

i.ot affeci

--,r::ator
:_

Ll is

:: latiDn. the

: . :l \{lth the
., .n:nt ta ent
: r'"" letier that

-,j i : vJoril
-:- lJislde the
_:. i: tlle top
:.-:r !!rrpanies
!:::-: aild many

::
.

.J:rt're effect
:l- the Public

: :a -:arry aruu€s

: :_r'i p reta ned
:_:: r .ltre hilher
rr /emnlent s
. - day flm's

oitetatan I the fLrilre v,/h af n tLrri|r cad
to a woTse peTformafae Herce tir-. ra,ia[]l-.
SOLD is lrrcdicted to fra,re a pos ljle mpilci
pedoflrafce Thls frdlnq is rnleresirq and

cipaiaton co!d be possbe.
['1e aysia !ovemment poss b]y chooses to
the folow nil

interfere !v1h day lo day operation se ectvely
despite the fact that the government o!/ns the

maiorty of share lt means that the
manalements of SOES have, to sonlc

oxtcnd, i.n autoromy ln managjng SOEs
This fact ls in conkadiction lvith theii
coufterpans in transrton counbes wherc the

opposlte findings lr,ere
lransiuon countries,

I

foufd. ln

the

rectoB cf SOEs piay a

role very much similar as pioduction Line
managels in the compary without niuch
control. As a rcsult the [4a aysian SOES that
sell hiqher percentaqe of share Co not

recessarily pioduce a beLer perfornance.
On the olher hend, the SOES in trafsition
countrles, orce they arc privairzecj, the
ntanagc$ gel much control and freecom to
manage the conpany afd hence. nrole
opportuirlty tc inprove the performance.
Olher euplanation, ['1a aysia gonernmei]t may

erercse cedain degree of i erventi,lr but
.ny ior cedalr policy and in a positive
man|er. Theiefore, the govemmeft
irtErfe.enc! in tlre SOES in [lalaysia does
nol ead to tie v/orse pedonnance cf SOES
:s repoded in a fumber oi lileratrlres.
The posltive effect of the varlable
ls also lncorsistent with the prcdiction
qs predicted based of enomolrs previous

:1,'1PL

-.mprdca studies EIIPL shcu d have
.egative effect on pedomance Again, the
irfevlor.rs studies are nrostiy conducted in
'irnEr rransition colntres cf Eastern
rLrrcpear natiofs. As akeady foLrnd nmany
:i.rdies. employee ollnership vias asso€ialed
'rth v/orse pedormance lt has nrany thlnqs

r do \!tf the macro economic cofdtiof
'rL.{nq the prvatizaiion eTa !'!'heie the

efi!!,!eas \ircr! roi etposed to th,. frce
nai(et such as n tlte /esiem ecofonty As
a resu t. ihe el][ilo,r'ecs d.) irct knor./ !/ )ai ti]

do vrith ther o,rfefsh]!i other tfar hkifE
vith ass!nnll polces thal !,ere
delrimert l! the coiipanies such as ralsng
lrages etc At the end, the empoyee
adlantage

ovr'nership is not beneflcal for the compaf es
but lnstead ,.vorsening the performance of the

c0mpany

When ROE

is used as

dependent

vaiabl€. orr y the change oi top m;Iagemcnl
in the companies has significanl effect on
ROE This res.rlt s consistent with Baberis
Boycko, Shleiter and isukanova (1996) who
arque that qettinq new nanirqers lnew
human capital in their lvords) ifcrcases firm
etfrciercy Dyck {19!7), ln East Genrany
shows that successful privalization hinlle:i on
the frm s ab liiy to replace old and inetficienl
managers lt s argued that few rnaltager wlil

ifto ihe mmp.rry or .l
least tlrere is lr€sh nevl talenl comlng.
Hence. the change h top frar]agrrnent lcanr
bring rew expedise

or members oiboard of dlrectors ,,viil l-.ad tc
a bettei pefornatce for the companes at
east in llte shcn-turt because ncw comei

almosl a y/ays v/art io sholr' h s/her
performai.e lllhen the dependeil lariab e

s substtlrted by rea sale, the variable 50LD
and Ln EI,IPL er-" statisticir y s lnificant {]f
couise. the signiflcanl effect of S0LD:nd

Ln

EltlPL

of

ROE has

tle

slmliar

explaraticn wrth thc prev ous nrode
Flnally wher Tea |e1 tncorne s useq
as d-apend-.fL vaiable no one irdcplfdclt
varabie is siq|illcant This res!l n(lical-"s
tlrat the data do noi suppcd the nrodel and

herce. conbinations

of al

ifiepefdent

varlabies are not able to exp a n the vaiation

if rca nei inconre lf shoi ort of five
ifiependenl rariables. only ong term debt to
toia assets has fe,,,er been statlstcally
slg:r faani ior a difereni nrodels tifdcates
l-iLl

D-1,t ,.- otOo-d

o

.. .... sftdraci

that lona-ternt debl to tolal assets does fot
have any effects on the pedomtafce of ftnns
upon plvalizalion.
The variations on the post privaUzation
pedormance
state-owned efteaprises
could be explained by several factorc. When
the Return on sales used as the dependent
vadable, the explanatory variables are Shod
term Debt to Total Asset and Ln Employe-"]
when Return on Asset used as ihe
dependent variable, fraction of ownership
sold and Ln Employee; when Retum on

of

Equity used as dependent variable, top
managemenl change, real sales, fEction sold

and Ln employee; and when Net lrcome
used as dependent vadable, none is
significant

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and Hard

in the

Budget
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Shortage, t4lod