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      Power relations, ethnicity and privatisation: A tale of a telecommunications company

      Sharma, Umesh Prasad; Lawrence, Stewart R.
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      Sharma, U; Lawrence, S. (2014) Power relations, ethnicity and privatization: A tale of a telecommunications company, 8th New Zealand Management Accounting Conference, November 24-25, Auckland University of Technology.
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/9221
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      The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the confluence of political and economic interests of the Fijian elite in transforming state assets into private property and financial gain. Drawing on a Habermasian theoretical framework applied to a privatised state monopoly (Telecom Fiji), it is demonstrated how an implementation of privatisation concealed social and political interests. Thus privatisation provided a convenient rhetoric and tool of implementation for social and political gain by a ruling elite. For those inside the Telecom company, the ethos of public service could not withstand the messengers of capitalism with their rhetoric of the need for greater efficiency, effectiveness and consumer awareness. However, as for many other privatisation programmes around the world, the results are not reflected in the improved organisational performance or wellbeing of the ordinary citizen when state monopolies are privatised.
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      2014
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