Purpose – According to one influential set of arguments, the privatization of public pensions has been informed by … cohesion. The paper aims to take issue with this negative characterization of pensions privatization. Design … – Collective responsibility for retirement may be pursued through distinctive forms of privatization. Originality/value – In …

predominantly market economies – for comparative analyses of socioeconomic‐political characteristics prior to privatization. Purpose … privatization. Constructs from a common set of factors descriptive of all the economies in the sample prior to initiation of … privatization, a general model of preconditions for privatization. Results of limited testing appeared to lend credence to the model.  …

process of privatization, citing the primary institutional shortcomings. Also examines governmental structural problems in …

Discusses the privatization of state enterprises in the Russian Federation since 1992. The enterprises scheduled to be … and services. This was called “small” privatization. Figure show Figure this process has been very slow and only certain …

little influence on the privatization implementation process. Suggests that privatization eeds to be accompanied by effective …. Highlights the danger that privatization is being used as another way of allocating the cost of structural adjustment and …

Argues that conceptually, privatization entails changing organizational status from public to private and from a … classification ‐ a reconceptualization of conventional paradigms. Based on the UK’s privatization experience, offers a framework for …