corporatization
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- noun
- /ˌkɔːr.pə.rə.tɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
- Formal
- The corporatization of public services has changed how many citizens view their government.
- corporatization of culture
Examples
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And, and because of the corporatization, they aren't being paid appropriately.
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Many argue that the corporatization of education prioritizes profit over student learning.
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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.
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Indeed, it was not so much the loss of money in scams that caused deep-seated unhappiness but the corporatization and spread of graft.
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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.
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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
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4.2
Changing how a company or system is organized to make it work better
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3.7
Major changes to how a company or group is set up
How Corporatized
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'.