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Public sector divestment has emerged in the 1980s as a major phenomenon in both industrialized and developing countries (Béjot, 1988; de Croisset, Prot, and de Rosen 1986; Hemming and Mansoor, 1988; Horvath, 1990; Ramanadham, 1988; Schares and Reaves, 1990; Shirley, 1988). It covers a wide array of activities, ranging from the sale of a state-owned firm to a private sector suitor, better labeled as a privatization, to a simple restructuring of a state organization to make it more responsive to market forces.
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Hafsi, T., Jorgensen, J.J., Koenig, C. (1993). Strategic Divestment in the Public Sector: Patterns from France and Great Britain. In: Zan, L., Zambon, S., Pettigrew, A.M. (eds) Perspectives on Strategic Change. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-27290-0_10
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