JOURNAL OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENT, VOLUME 10, ISSUE 4, 599-622 WINTER 2010
OPERATING PERFORMANCE AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE OF
SUPPLIER COMPANIES TO GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES
Thanh Ngo*
ABSTRACT. This paper examines operating performance and corporate
governance of 181 companies over the period 2003- 2008 (563 firm-year
observations), whose customers are governmental agencies, and contrasts
their performance to that of companies that have no governmental
customers. The sample firms are classified into firm