Felisini Reassessing the Role of Management in the Golden Age

An International Comparison of Public Sector Managers 1945–1975
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-48722-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 202 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This book provides a critical reassessment of the role of the public sector during the Golden Age in both advanced and emerging economies. Contributions focus on a major player in the setting of mixed economies: the top managers of state-owned enterprises. Bringing together world-renowned scholars, this collection analyzes the actions of these managers and their contribution to the rise and fall of the mixed economy during the Golden Age, opening up a comparative perspective of the topic. The book forces readers to reconsider how crucial state-owned enterprises were for economic recovery and for the modernization of the production apparatus of many countries in Western Europe, India, Latin America and South Africa. Key chapters discuss state-owned enterprises in twentieth-century Europe, the managerial revolution in Italy, the role of the state in Argentine industrialization, and the organization of capital in the Indian economy. This insightful collection will appeal to scholars and students with an interest in economic history and the socio-economic impact of state-owned companies around the globe.

Daniela Felisini is Professor of Economic History at the University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', Italy, where she holds the Jean Monnet Chair. She has published books and articles on the history of state-owned enterprises and on Italian economic ruling classes.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Felisini, Daniela

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;5
2;List of Figures and Graph;7
3;List of Tables;8
4;Introduction;9
5;State and Enterprise: The Case of SOEs in Europe in the Twentieth Century;16
5.1;Bibliography;22
6;The Boards of UK Nationalised Industries and Their Members c.1950–c.1979;24
6.1; Introduction;25
6.2; Perceived Importance of the Nationalised Industries’ Boards;28
6.3; Efforts to Reform the Appointment Process;30
6.4; Nature of the Boards;36
6.5; Conclusion;38
6.6;Bibliography;40
7;The Managerial Revolution in Italy. The Managers of IRI (1945–1970);45
7.1; Introduction;46
7.2; Origins and Mission of IRI;47
7.3; Recruitment and Training of New Managerial Teams;49
7.4; The Database: Profiling a National Technocracy;52
7.5; Innovation and Continuity in the Golden Age;53
7.6; Managerial Revolution and Italy’s “Economic Miracle”;55
7.7; The Beginning of the Decline;57
7.8;Bibliography;58
8;Two Lives Both Parallel and Divergent: Pasquale Saraceno and Giorgio Fuà;62
8.1;Bibliography;68
9;French Public Sector Managers 1945–1975: Modernization Without Miracle;70
9.1; Introduction;71
9.2; The Origins and Recruitment of Top Managers and their Impact on Business Networks;72
9.2.1; The Origins;72
9.2.2; The Recruitment;74
9.2.3; The Networks;74
9.3; What Did Bosses Do?;75
9.3.1; Internationalization;76
9.3.2; Modernization;77
9.3.3; Industrial Relations;79
9.4; The Principal and the Agents;80
9.4.1; From Control to Contract?;81
9.4.2; The Cost Structure;82
9.4.3; Financing the Future;84
9.5; Conclusion;85
9.6;Bibliography;87
10;SASOL. From State-Owned Enterprise to Chemical Leader: Management and Strategy, 1952–1980;91
10.1; Introduction;92
10.2; State-Owned Enterprises: Crowding Out or Enabling?;93
10.3; SASOL: Establishing a Strategic Industry;95
10.4; SASOL: Managing a Strategic Industry;100
10.5; “Rounding Off” and Privatize;108
10.6; Conclusion;110
10.7;Bibliography;112
11;The Role of Military Managers in State-­Owned Companies in Argentina. Astilleros y Fábricas Navales del Estado (1953–1986);117
11.1; The Entrepreneurial State in Argentina;119
11.2; The Industrial-Nationalist Ideology in Argentina: Enrique Mosconi and Manuel Savio;122
11.3; Shipbuilding for Defense and Economic Independence;125
11.3.1; The Trajectory of AFNE;128
11.4; Edmundo Manera and Enrique Carranza: Building Technological Capabilities in Argentine Shipbuilding Industry;133
11.5; Summing Up;135
11.6; Appendix;137
11.7;Bibliography;138
11.7.1;Sources;142
11.7.2;Laws and Decrees;142
11.7.3;Interviews;142
12;Industrial Policy and the Role of MITI in Japan;144
12.1; From the Audience;152
13;The Public Sector and the Regime of Capital in India, 1947–1975;155
13.1; Introduction;156
13.2; Section I;158
13.3; Section II;165
13.4;Bibliography;176
13.4.1;Other Cited Sources;178
14;Formation of Industrial Complexes in South Korea in the 1960s and 1970s: Reconsidering Entrepreneurial State in Asia;180
14.1; Industrialization in Haste for Survival and Independence;181
14.2; Reconsidering Entrepreneurial State of “The Rest”;183
14.3; Entrepreneurial State in Motion;185
14.4; The Architect of KICOX;188
14.5; The Rise of Technocrats for Entrepreneurial State;189
14.6; Exploration of New Analytical Approaches to Entrepreneurial State;192
14.7; Raison d’être of Industrial History;192
14.8; Revisiting Theory of Fiscal-Military State in the Case of South Korea;193
14.9; Industrialization of South Korea in Global History;194
14.10; Concluding Remarks: Revisiting Gerschenkronian Theory?;195
14.11;Bibliography;196
15;Index;200

Introduction; Daniela Felisini.- State and Enterprise: The Case of SOEs in Europe in the 20th Century; Franco Amatori.- Industrial Policy and the Role of MITI in Japan: Interview with Shinji Fukukawa; Franco Amatori and Corrado Molteni.- SASOL: From State-Owned Enterprise to Chemical Leader: Management and Strategy, 1952-1980; Grietjie Verhoef.- The Role of Military Managers in State-Owned Companies in Argentina. Astilleros y Fábricas Navales del Estado (1953-1986); Cintia Russo.- The Boards of UK Nationalised Industries and their Members c. 1950 - c. 1979 89; Neil Rollings.- The Managerial Revolution in Italy: The Managers of IRI (1945-1970); Daniela Felisini.- Two Lives both Parallel and Divergent: Pasquale Saraceno and Giorgio Fuà; Franco Amatori.- French Public Sector Managers 1945-1975: Modernization without Miracle; Patrick Fridenson.- The Public Sector and the Regime of Capital in India: 1947-1975; Chirashree Das Gupta.- Formation of Industrial Complexes in South Korea in the 1960s and 1970s: Reconsidering Entrepreneurial State in Asia; Eugene K. Choi.

Über Autor(innen)

Daniela Felisini is Professor of Economic History at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy, where she holds the Jean Monnet Chair. She has published books and articles on the history of state-owned enterprises and on Italian economic ruling classes.