Author: Robert Millward
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780521835244
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Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The aim of this article is to explain the pattern of public enterprise in Western Europe, Japan and the USA in the late 20th century, just before the onset of privatization. This requires an examination of the origins which date from the early 19th century. A common misconception is that public enterprise was a device for overcoming problems of natural monopoly and/or a socialist instrument for mitigating worker exploitation. It is argued that the former was mainly dealt with by arms' length regulation and that socialist forces were limited. Public enterprise was common in grid networks everywhere and, in manufacturing, more common in Germany, Spain, Italy than elsewhere. Why also were the USA and UK (up to"1939) different and what does the privatization experience tell us about public enterprise? The answer is that public enterprise was often an instrument for promoting social and political unification, securing national defence and related strategic considerations, increasingly in the 20th century for promoting economic growth, with regulatory failures and socialist pressures playing a more subsidiary and/or occasional role.
Author: Jacques Defourny
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-04-12
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0429619626
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has been a central issue in a great number of publications. The main objective of the ICSEM Project on which this book is based was to show that the social enterprise field would benefit much more from linking conceptualisation efforts to the huge diversity of social enterprises than from an additional and ambitious attempt at providing an encompassing definition. Starting from a hypothesis that could be termed "the impossibility of a unified definition", the ICSEM research strategy relied on bottom-up approaches to capture the social enterprise phenomenon in its local and national contexts. This strategy made it possible to take into account and give legitimacy to locally embedded approaches, while simultaneously allowing for the identification of major social enterprise models to delineate the field on common grounds at the international level. Social Enterprise in Western Europe –the third volume in a series of four ICSEM-based books on social enterprise worldwide – will serve as a key reference and resource for teachers, researchers, students, experts, policy makers, journalists and others who want to acquire a broad understanding of the social enterprise and social entrepreneurship phenomena as they emerge and develop in this region.
Author: Henry Parris
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents a comprehensive survey of public enterprise in Western Europe namely: Austria, Belgium, Federal Republic of Germany, France, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom. Looks at the status of public enterprises, relations with governments, industrial relations, commercial policies and consumer relations, the impact of privatisation and emerging trends.
Author: Glyn Watson
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This bibliographic study offers a useful introduction for those wishing to understand how the public sector changed over a decade in 12 member states of the EC. It is written in a readable style, with chapters detailing the literature available in each of the covered member states.
Author: Borislav Grahovac
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781594540738
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book deals with an increasingly important topic. As governments are expected to provide their citizens with more services at less cost, the traditional vehicles of public sector agencies and companies prove to be too expensive. New forms of providing public services are needed. The study explains the basis for public ownership and how public ownership forms have changed over time to accommodate requirements of efficiency in economic and social environments that have become more complex. The book examines experiences in specific sectors and the form of management of public companies that have emerged, with a particular focus on the energy and communications sectors where government ownership has traditionally dominated.
Author: Christine J. Richmond
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 2019-06-18
Total Pages: 127
ISBN-13: 1498315143
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Central, Eastern, and South Eastern European (CESEE) region is ripe for a reassessment of the role of the state in economic activity. The rapid income convergence with Western Europe of the early 2000s was not always equally shared across society, and it has now slowed dramatically in many countries of the region.
Author: Raymond Vernon
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780674072756
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The five country studies, five industry studies and two more general papers are well integrated to make this one of the best books we have on industrial policy and the different patterns of government-business relations developing in Western Europe.
Author: John Vickers
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-06-28
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1135778566
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