Doctoral thesis of Philosophy: Capabilities-strategy match and board governance: their impacts on financial performance and accountability-emphasis of government business enterprises

The objectives of the study are: to extend the literature in several ways. First, the relationship between strategictype and organisational capabilities has been predominately investigated in the context of the private sector, not the public sector; To provide evidence about the comparative impacts of two contemporary control devices adapted by management of GBEs, as organisations that operated in a nexus between private sector market conditions and public sector ownership and oversight conditions; To provide evidence about the mix of congruency factors (i.e. capabilitiesstrategies alignments) and agency monitoring factors (i.e. board structures) on both types of performance, namely, financial performance and accountability outcomes of GBEs.