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corporatize, corporatise [ˈkɔːpərətaɪz -prə-] vb 1. (Business / Commerce) (tr) to convert (a government-controlled industry or enterprise) into an independent company 2. (intr) to be influenced by or take on the features of a large commercial business, esp in being bureaucratic and uncaring How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Anuar, "The press in Malaysia in the early 1990s: Corporatisation, technological innovation and the middle class," in Muhammad Ikmal Said and Zahid Emby, eds. And like previous subcultures studied, hip hop in its US context was quickly subjected to incorporation by mainstream mass media and commodification by the mainstream popular music industry, with all the attendant implications of moral panics, ideological distortion, corporatisation, trivialisation and "othering" of an "alternative" youth subculture. Universities as businesses The corporatisation of universities, where they operate as independent businesses for profit rather than as public institutions (Ruch, 2001), encourages the use of techniques such as TQM (Aly & Akpovi, 2001; Lawrence & McCollough, 2001; Sheer & Teeter, 1991) and other measures such as customer satisfaction to consider issues of quality (Bensimon, 1995). |
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