Transfers of public assets to private owners of companies have been recognized as the important aspect of changes concerning management of enterprises. Adherents of institutional economics have argued that post-communist transformations should be seen through the perspective of formal rules and informal constraints.
The article reviews the institutional conceptualization of early post-communist property changes to provide a framework for the adoption of more differentiated patterns regarding elucidation of interdependence between current privatization processes and structuring of management practices.