The role of foreign ownership must also be given due attention in
examining the transformation of the Estonian organization sector. To
summarize, the factor that looms in the background of the transformation
of the Estonian organization sector is not so much the privatization of
state organizations, but rather the establishment of new organizations.
The Soviet Union, notorious for its history of failed economic reforms,
ventured out in the mid-1980s on a new socio-economic reform known as
perestroika: the aim was to avoid the impending economic collapse of the
Soviet system. If Estonia is accepted as a full member of the European
Union at the end of this decade, the country’s organization sector will
be very much influenced by the development of the relationships between
the European Union and Russia. In a regional analysis, very little has
changed in the Estonian organization sector since the Soviet era: the
organization sector remains heavily centralized around the capital city.