We interpret privatization in light of corporate governance theory. After replicating some traditional tests, we test … whatever positive value accrues from privatization is affected by the contextual, organizational, governance, and strategic … variables that influence the privatization process. …

, Nash and Van Randenborgh (MNR 1994) by using the Wilcoxon and proportion tests to compare the pre- and post-privatization … studies, it has its shortcomings. Indeed, this method is unable to isolate the impact of privatization on firm performance … employed in this paper. Both approaches confirm that privatization in Vietnam brings about significant improvement in most …