Mutualization

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Mutualization or mutualisation is the process by which a joint stock company changes legal form to a mutual organization or a cooperative, so that the majority of the stock is owned by employees or customers. Demutualization or privatization is the reverse process.

See also

• Consumer cooperative
• Corporatization
• Employee ownership
• Market socialism
• Mutualism (economic theory)
• Producer cooperative