TY - JOUR AB - Reports intensive country studies conducted for a sample of ten countries – five historically socially planned and five predominantly market economies – for comparative analyses of socioeconomic‐political characteristics prior to privatization. Purpose was to discern if there were any common factors descriptive of capitalist and/or socialist countries prior to 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. VL - 19 IS - 6 SN - 0306-8293 DO - 10.1108/03068299210012575 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/03068299210012575 AU - Cameron Colleen W. PY - 1992 Y1 - 1992/01/01 TI - A Comparison of Privatization in Capitalist and Socialist Countries T2 - International Journal of Social Economics PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 55 EP - 60 Y2 - 2024/04/24 ER -