The Role of Governments in Markets
Interventions and Unexpected Consequences in Industrial History
1st Edition
Published on 31. May 2021
134 pages
978-0-429-68063-2 (ISBN)
Description
This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by expert series editors and contextualised by new analysis from each author on government intervention and unexpected consequences in industrial history.
With contributions on organisational structure, the quality of corporate governance, protectionism, the shareholder value model, and economic nationalism, this volume provides an array of fascinating insights into industrial history.
Of interest to business and economic historians, this shortform book also provides analysis and illustrative case studies that will be valuable reading across the social sciences.
With contributions on organisational structure, the quality of corporate governance, protectionism, the shareholder value model, and economic nationalism, this volume provides an array of fascinating insights into industrial history.
Of interest to business and economic historians, this shortform book also provides analysis and illustrative case studies that will be valuable reading across the social sciences.
More details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
23 Tables, black and white; 9 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 11 Illustrations, black and white
ISBN-13
978-0-429-68063-2 (9780429680632)
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John F. Wilson | Steven Toms | Ian Jones
The Role of Governments in Markets
Interventions and Unexpected Consequences in Industrial History
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09/2025
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John F. Wilson | Steven Toms | Ian Jones
The Role of Governments in Markets
Interventions and Unexpected Consequences in Industrial History
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Persons
John F. Wilson is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Business and Law) at Northumbria University at Newcastle, UK. He has published widely in the fields of business, management and industrial history, including ten monographs, six edited collections and over seventy articles and chapters.
Steven Toms spent fifteen years in senior management at Nottingham University, UK, as head of the undergraduate programme, chair of teaching committee and research director before becoming Head of York Management School in 2004.
Ian Jones is a Senior Research Assistant at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK.
Steven Toms spent fifteen years in senior management at Nottingham University, UK, as head of the undergraduate programme, chair of teaching committee and research director before becoming Head of York Management School in 2004.
Ian Jones is a Senior Research Assistant at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK.
Content
Introduction; 1 Protectionism and the growth of overseas multinational enterprise in interwar Britain; "Protectionism and the growth of overseas multinational enterprise in interwar Britain": a retrospective; 2 The making of the First Czechoslovak Republic and the national control of companies: the nostrification policy and economic nationalism, 1918-1938; 3 The making of a puzzling industry: historical perspectives on Japan's petrochemical industry; 4 Corporate governance and public policy: 'new' initiatives by 'Old' Labour to reform stakeholder behaviour in the UK, 1965-1969
