Abstract
This paper presents the results of a pilot study of privatization of municipal property in the Russian North based on data from the Murmansk city government. After a general overview of the process in Russia and Murmansk city, the paper outlines a number of positive and negative aspects of the privatization of city‐owned enterprises on the basis of interviews conducted with the management of the newly privatized enterprises.
Notes
Research for this paper was supported by the Murmansk Municipal Property Fund, The Barents Center for Social Research, Murmansk, and The Center for Regional Science (CERUM), Umeå, Sweden. A draft of the paper was presented at ICASS II, Rovaniemi, Finland, 18May‐ 1 June 1995. The authors wish to thank Dr. John F. Young for his valuable comments on a subsequent draft of this paper.