CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Sabluk, Diana |
|---|---|
| Title | Challenges in the Privatization of Ukrainian and Slovakian Large Enterprises: Special Focus on the Steel Industry |
| Summary | The challenges of privatization in the post communist world have not been an easy task to resolve and have caused a lot of controversy and debates. My thesis looks into the problems of privatization practices and settings throughout post-communist Ukraine and Slovakia. There is a special focus on the steel industry’s large enterprise privatization in order to see the patterns even more clearly and allow in depth analysis. Using the comparative analysis in my study I have shown similarities as well as contrasted findings within the similar categories of the analysis. The major finding of my thesis is that in the statement “”challenges of privatization”, challenges played a specifically important role in the privatization process in post communist Ukraine and Slovakia. The two countries have both undergone similar processes, which at the end resulted in different outcomes, which does not support the arguments about path dependency and limit in the choices when it comes to privatization. The great evidence of this has been the Slovakia’s breaking 1998, when it has finally stepped on the prosperity developmental path and made the privatization processes more transparent and legal. Nevertheless, privatization from above by large transnational firms proved to be the most efficient solution for the two countries. However, privatization by local business groups in Ukraine has also been surprisingly enough a good solution for the earlier state owned enterprises. |
| Supervisor | Horvath Julius |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/sabluk_diana.pdf |
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