Ad campaigns can help dispel that fear, promote the new venture, and encourage the purchase of stocks or vouchers at discount. Where monopolies remain intact, a regulatory body can control future price rises. Rural citizens and small farmers may worry that a privatized firm will have no incentive to deliver to them goods and services. Service guarantees built into a new company's charter can allay these concerns. Nationalists may want to prevent strategic industries from passing into foreign control.
Total privatization is preferable to joint ventures between the state and private entrepreneurs.
Investors in some developing economies want the state as a minority partner to help circumvent bureaucratic controls and prevent abuses by state monopoly suppliers of services, such as ports and railways. However, it is better to address these problems at the root than to give some enterprises special treatment. Joint ventures run by unions and workers have also failed, as have SOEs transferred to the nation's army or navy. Competition should be introduced as part of the privatization process wherever possible. All benefits of privatization are enhanced when accompanied by market forces.