Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Impact of Alternative Regimes of Property and Ownership on Economic Growth

私有化作为增加市场参与和刺激经济增长的手段得到了广泛的推广。然而，私有财产和所有权的构成有多种法律的和文化模式，事实证明，对这些地形管理不当的行业特别脆弱。这个项目，培训研究生如何进行严格的，以经验为基础的科学实地考察，探讨什么因素有助于成功和持久的新经济企业的背景下，法律的和文化制度的财产各不相同。该项目的调查结果将分发给参与宣传公共政策的组织和利益攸关方，旨在加强代表性不足的利益攸关方对经济的参与，并制定更好的决策模式，从而改善经济安全。这项研究也促进了国际科学合作。海登，匹兹堡大学，将调查是否所有权和私有财产构成不同的分析概念在某些劳动和工业背景下，以及什么是政治，经济和文化的影响，这种区别。在克罗地亚的一个工人拥有的工厂，一个以进入欧盟后的新兴市场为标志的地方，这项研究有三个目标：（1）追踪财产概念的转变，（2）探索从工人所有制中产生的经济关系，以确定正在发展的公司形式，（3）考察工人如何表达一种与财产分离的所有权的政治和经济意识形态。在12个月的时间里，Kojanic将进行半结构化访谈，参与者观察和档案研究。这个案例研究将有助于社会科学中的财产关系的辩论，通过测试未充分使用的所有权概念的分析价值，从财产的概念区分。

Privatization has been widely promoted as a vehicle for increasing market participation and stimulating economic growth. There are, however, multiple legal and cultural models within which private property and ownership are constituted, and industries that inadequately manage those terrains have been proven to be particularly vulnerable. This project, which trains a graduate student in how to conduct rigorous, empirically grounded scientific fieldwork, explores what factors contribute to the success and durability of new economic ventures in contexts where legal and cultural regimes of property vary. The findings of this project will be disseminated to organizations and stakeholders involved in informing public policy aimed at enhancing the participation of underrepresented stakeholders in the economy, and developing improved inclusion in decision-making models, thus improving economic security. The research also fosters international scientific cooperation.Ognjen Kojanic, under the supervision of Dr. Robert M. Hayden of the University of Pittsburgh, will investigate whether ownership and private property constitute different analytical concepts within certain labor and industrial contexts, and what are the political economic, and cultural implications of that distinction. Looking at a worker-owned factory in Croatia, a site marked by emergent markets following entry into the European Union, this research has three objectives: (1) to track the transformation of concepts of property, (2) to explore the economic relations that emerge from worker-ownership to determine the corporate form being developed, and (3) to examine how workers articulate a political and economic ideology of ownership separate from those of property. Over the course of 12 months, Kojanic will conduct semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and archival research. This case study will contribute to the debate on property relations in social sciences by testing the analytic value of the underused concept of ownership, as differentiated from the concept of property.