Intereconomics

, Volume 27, Issue 5, pp 210–214 | Cite as

Management buy-outs as an instrument of privatization in Eastern Europe

  • Harald Sondhof
  • Markus Stahl
System Transformation
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Abstract

Privatizing government enterprises is one of the most difficult tasks in the transformation process taking place in the former socialist economies. What contribution do management buy-outs have to make in coping with that task?

Keywords

Private Enterprise Industrial Enterprise Government Enterprise Privatization Process Leverage Buyout 
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© HWWA and Springer-Verlag 1992

Authors and Affiliations

  • Harald Sondhof
    • 1
  • Markus Stahl
    • 1
  1. 1.Both University of TübingenGermany

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