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corporatization

corporatization

1 7.5
Changing a public organization so it is run like a private business
  • noun
  • /ˌkɔːr.pə.rə.tɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
  • Formal
: corporativización
  • The corporatization of public services has changed how many citizens view their government.
  • corporatization of culture

Examples

  • And, and because of the corporatization, they aren't being paid appropriately.

  • Many argue that the corporatization of education prioritizes profit over student learning.

  • The corporatization of medicine has a profound effect on all health care professionals.

    Academic text (2000)
  • The report also increases the understanding of different means used to ensure that the corporatization policy succeeds.

    Blog text (32)
  • The report explores the development from privatization to corporatization, within neoliberal policy on urban water services in developing countries.

    Blog text (32)
  • Corporatization reform entails the implementation of commercial neoliberal management principles within public sector water utilities.

    Blog text (32)
  • The corporatization of the Americas and Environs enabled O'Wally to eventually become its CEO.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • Indeed, it was not so much the loss of money in scams that caused deep-seated unhappiness but the corporatization and spread of graft.

    Academic text (2010)
  • In this sense, mural art has become part of the increasing trend towards a corporatization of culture, which has affected many aspects of cultural production in South Africa as a result of globalization and neoliberalism.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Third, the United States faces the "corporatization of health care" and the subjection of medicine to the "morality of the marketplace" (Eckholm, 1994; Kassirer, 1995).

    Academic text (1997)

Synonyms

restructuring
vscorporatization
50 4.2

Changing how a company or system is organized to make it work better

is a change that makes a public body operate like a private company
reorganization
vscorporatization
24 3.7

Major changes to how a company or group is set up

is specifically about changing it to be run like a business

How Corporatized

commercialization
  • US
12 6.3
corporatization
  • Formal
1 7.5
governance
  • Specialized
92 5.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

corporatization = corporatize (transparent) = corporate + ize + ation

Formed by corporate + -ize (verb) + -ation (nominalization) and directly denotes the process of making something corporate.

Etymology

Corporatization comes from corporate and corporation plus the ending -ization, which means 'making into' or 'changing into'. So, corporatization is the process of turning an organization into a company or making it 'run like a business'.