Tales Of Soes: a Review Of Books About Corporatisation
Listener 30 January, 1999.
Keywords: Business & Finance; Governance;
One of the great upheavals of the 1980s was the `corporatisation’ of the state owned enterprises (SOEs). Following widespread concerns in the late 1970s, the 1984 Labour Government reorganized the government’s businesses into private corporations in every aspect except that the shareholders were a couple of government ministers. As many as seven major studies have been published on corporatisation. What can we learn from them?