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The Privatization Process At The Irish Sugar Company – Logical Incrementalism Or Ensemble Des Jeux?
Author(s) -
Leavy Brian
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.313
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1467-9299
pISSN - 0033-3298
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9299.00134
Subject(s) - irish , incrementalism , context (archaeology) , process (computing) , economics , politics , business , economic system , industrial organization , political science , computer science , law , paleontology , philosophy , linguistics , biology , operating system
This article presents an empirical analysis of the privatization process at Comhlucht Siuicre Eireann Teoranta (CSET), the Irish Sugar Company. The CSET privatization was significant in being the first in the modern Irish political context. It was also significant in that the primary momentum for the process was generated and sustained by strategic action at firm level. Yet, it was a transformation in which firm strategists were rarely in full control of events, and one that had national as well as organizational implications. The analysis suggests that even the most robust of firm‐level models of change alone provides an inadequate guide to fully understanding such processes. It examines the case for viewing them through a more multi‐level perspective.