International Privatisation

Strategies and Practices

Thomas Clarke

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9783110135695
• eBook ISBN: 9783110857191
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Economic Theory
• Index: Economics

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Table of contents

• Introduction: Privatising the World?
• Part I. International Privatisation Policy
• Chapter 1. The Internationalisation of Privatisation
• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 The Growth of Public Ownership
• 1.3 The Challenge to Public Ownership
• 1.4 Explaining the Spread of Privatisation: Prevailing Orthodoxies, Received Wisdom and the Policy Community
• 1.5 Explaining the Spread of Privatisation: The Role of International Institutions in Developed Countries
• 1.6 Explaining the Spread of Privatisation: The Role of International Institutions in Developing and Former Socialist Countries
• 1.7 The Case of Electricity
• 1.8 Conclusions
• Chapter 2. The Legal Techniques of Privatisation
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Common Problems
• 2.3 Changes of Ownership, Activities, and Assets
• 2.4 Transformation and Liquidation
• 2.5 Conclusion
• Chapter 3. Privatization and “Popular Capitalism”: The Case of Japan
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 The Case of Zaibatsu Dissolution
• 3.3 Dispersion of Frozen Shares
• 3.4 Case of NTT (Nihon Telegraph & Telephone)
• 3.5 Illusion of “Popular Capitalism”
• Part II. The Retreat of the State in the Advanced Industrial Economies
• Chapter 4. Privatization American Style: The “Grand Illusion”
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 Privatization and Economic Performance
• 4.3 Privatization and Deficit Reduction
• 4.4 Privatization and Economic Growth
• 4.5 Privatization and Union Power
• 4.6 Privatization and “Popular Capitalism”
• 4.7 Conclusion
• Chapter 5. Privatising State Owned Housing
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Privatisations
• 5.3 Preconditions for Extensive Privatisation?
• 5.4 Council House Sales
• 5.5 Evaluating the Effects of Policy
• 5.6 What has been Sold and Where?
• 5.7 Who Buys?
• 5.8 Gainers and Losers
• 5.9 Other Aspects
• 5.10 The Context for Housing Privatisation
• 5.11 Conclusions
• Chapter 6. Commerce vs. Politics: Compulsory Competitive Tendering and the Determination of Employment Policy in a British Local Authority
• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 The ‘Problem’ of Management
• 6.3 Employment Relations in Local Government
• 6.4 The Development of Compulsory Competitive Tendering
• 6.5 Direct Service Organisations: Corporate vs. Commercial Pressures
• 6.6 Competition and Employment Practice
• 6.7 Competition: Changing Managerial Style and Employee Relations?
• Chapter 7. Steel, State, and Industrial Relations: Restructuring Work and Employment Relations in the Steel Industry
• 7.1 Introduction
• 7.2 Economic Decline and Plant Closures in the First Wave of Restructuring
• 7.3 The Political Context: State and Steel Industry
• 7.4 The Organisational Context: Two Traditions of Industrial Relations in the Steel Industry
• 7.5 Changing Working Practices
• 7.6 Conclusions
• Chapter 8. The Partial Privatisation of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia
• 8.1 Introduction
• 8.2 The People’s Bank
• 8.3 Still the People’s Bank
• 8.4 The Role of the CBOA
• Part III. The Marketisation of the Planned Economies
• Chapter 9. Privatisation and Democratisation in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
• 9.1 Means and Ends
• 9.2 Prosperity
• 9.3 Transition to a Market Economy
• 9.4 Privatisation in Eastern Europe and the Former USSR
• 9.5 Popular Attitudes
• 9.6 Democracy
• Chapter 10. The Role of the Banking Sector in the Process of Privatisation
• 10.1 Introduction
• 10.2 Essential Preconditions and Accompanying Reforms
• 10.3 Financial Restructuring of State Enterprises
• 10.4 Funding Private Acquisitions
• 10.5 Financing Capacity Restructuring
• 10.6 Financing Investment in new Capacity and Working Capital
• 10.7 Hardening Budget Constraints
• 10.8 Constraining Managerial Discretion
• 10.9 Funding Leasings, Buy-outs and Takeovers
• 10.10 Conclusions
• Chapter 11. Privatization in Hungary: Wishful Thinking or Economic Way Out?
• 11.1 Introduction
• 11.2 The Government’s Privatization Programs and Policies
• 11.3 The Growth of the Private Sector
• 11.4 Some Privatization Paradoxes
• Chapter 12. Privatisation in East Germany and the Chance of Workers’ Participation: A Problems Approach
• 12.1 The Historical Conditions for the Privatisation of Property in East Germany
• 12.2 Ways, Chances, and Obstacles in Connection With the Privatisation in East Germany
• 12.3 Privatisation, Industrial Relations and Participation
• Chapter 13. Privatisation in Poland: People’s Capitalism?
• 13.1 Privatisation or “Statisation”
• 13.2 Economic Ownership
• 13.3 Criteria for Distinguishing Real and Nominal Ownership
• 13.4 The Nature of Employee Ownership
• 13.5 Management and Control
• 13.6 Universal Capitalism?
• 13.7 The Conventional Wisdom on Private Ownership
• 13.8 Foreign Investment
• 13.9 Worker- or Management-owned?
• 13.10 Conclusions and Implications
• Chapter 14. Post-Soviet Privatisation and Workers’ Self-Management?
• 14.1 Introduction
• 14.2 Leasing and Self-Management Under Perestroika
• 14.3 Individualistic Versus Collectivistic Finance
• 14.4 Workers Participation in new Ownership
• 14.5 Initiative and Procedure
• 14.6 Entrepreneurship Versus Workers’ Self-Management
• 14.7 Concluding Remarks
• Chapter 15. On the “Third Sector” in Central and Eastern European Post-Soviet Type Economies
• 15.1 Introduction
• 15.2 The Third Sector: A Brief Introduction
• 15.3 The Third Sector in Eastern and Central European Post-STEs: Some Perspectives
• 15.4 Concluding Remarks
• Chapter 16. Privatisation: East Meets West
• 16.1 Introduction
• 16.2 Some Features of the Soviet Economic System
• 16.3 The Organization of Production and the Re-Emergence of the Bourgeoisie
• 16.4 From Centrally Planned to Classical Capitalism
• Part IV. Privatisation, the Public Sector and Development
• Chapter 17. A Comparative Study of the Policies Towards Foreign and Chinese Owned Private Enterprises in the People’s Republic of China
• 17.1 Introduction
• 17.2 Definitions
• 17.3 Policies Towards Private Enterprises
• 17.4 Policies Towards Foreign Enterprises
• 17.5 A Comparison
• 17.6 Outlook
• 17.7 Conclusion
• Chapter 18. South Africa: Privatisation and Nationalisation in the Post-Apartheid Economy
• 18.1 The Economic Debate in Contemporary South Africa
• 18.2 The South African Government’s Privatisation and Deregulation Policy
• 18.3 Contention About the Future Shape of the South African Economy
• 18.4 Privatisation and Nationalisation in South Africa: An Overview
• Chapter 19. Privatisation of Public Enterprises in the Less Developed Countries
• 19.1 Public Enterprises in the Less Developed Countries
• 19.2 Privatisation: A New Development Strategy?
• 19.3 The Empirical Gap
• 19.4 Research Results
• 19.5 Policy Implications of the Research Finding for Potential Reform Measures of Sundanese PEs
• 19.6 Implications for Future Research
• Chapter 20 Public Enterprise and Privatisation in Botswana
• 20.1 Introduction
• 20.2 Public Enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa
• 20.3 Privatisation in Sub-Saharan Africa
• 20.4 Botswana: An Exceptional Case?
• 20.5 The Potential for Privatisation
• 20.6 Concluding Comments
• Part V. Reconstructing the Public Sector
• Chapter 21. Reconstructing the Public Sector: Performance Measurement, Quality Assurance, and Social Accountability
• 21.1 Introduction: Reinventing Government?
• 21.2 Future Paradigms for Public Service
• 21.3 Performance Measurement
• 21.4 Quality Assurance
• 21.5 Social Accountability
• 21.6 Contracts and Consumers
• 21.7 The Citizen’s Charter
• 21.8 The Management of Change
• 21.9 Zero Based Budgets
• 21.10 Conclusions: The Imperative of Government
• International Privatisation: Strategies and Practices St. Andrews University, Scotland 12–14 September 1991