Property Rights and Corruption When looking at a country as a market or investment, the international business must consider the country's legal system. In that assessment, the firm needs to understand the differences between private actions, which refer to theft, piracy, blackmail, and the like from individuals or groups, and public actions, which are those actions taken by politicians and government bureaucrats. Either kind of action would pose a serious threat to the firm's investment or operations. Before the firm can seek legal remedies, it must clearly understand the options open to it. In a legal sense, property refers to a resource over which an individual or a business holds a lega title t s a resource that owns ntes diffe? extent to which their legal systems define and protect property rights, even those countries that are still nominally communist states. Property rights can be violated, sometimes by governments and sometimes by individuals or groups Roll over the items on the left and read the description to determine if it pertains more to private or public actions in terms of property rights and legal protections. Then drag the item to the appropriate column Private Action Public Action legal mechanisms theft or blackmail organized crime/ protection money bribery weak legal system corruption