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Governing the country through the public broadcasting corporation.

Nordberg, D. and Muridzo, S., 2018. Governing the country through the public broadcasting corporation. In: British Academy of Management symposium on Corporate Governance in the Middle East and Africa, 16 February 2018, Cass Business School, London.

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Abstract

Public service broadcasters are a peculiar form of organisation, corporations in name but extensions of the state that call them into being. They share that distinction with other firms, long since privatised: the PTTs of yore – post, telegraph, and telephone providers – or what were once seen as natural monopolies: water and electricity. But they differ in a crucial and paradoxical regard: Among their functions is to hold the state to account. It is, therefore, a corporate form with the agency problem as part of its reason for being. It is a governance mechanism over its own governors. In liberal democracies, states have come to accept that paradox and tolerate its ambiguities as a condition of state legitimacy. In this paper we ask the question: How does a state broadcast retain its legitimacy when the legitimacy of the state in under question?

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Group:Bournemouth University Business School
ID Code:30317
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:06 Feb 2018 10:18
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