Reassessing the Role of Management in the Golden Age

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • Daniela Felisini

   Pages 1-7

3. State and Enterprise: The Case of SOEs in Europe in the Twentieth Century

   • Franco Amatori

   Pages 9-16

4. The Boards of UK Nationalised Industries and Their Members c.1950–c.1979

   • Neil Rollings

   Pages 17-37

5. The Managerial Revolution in Italy. The Managers of IRI (1945–1970)

   • Daniela Felisini

   Pages 39-55

6. Two Lives Both Parallel and Divergent: Pasquale Saraceno and Giorgio Fuà

   • Franco Amatori

   Pages 57-64

7. French Public Sector Managers 1945–1975: Modernization Without Miracle

   • Patrick Fridenson

   Pages 65-85

8. SASOL. From State-Owned Enterprise to Chemical Leader: Management and Strategy, 1952–1980

   • Grietjie Verhoef

   Pages 87-112

9. The Role of Military Managers in State-Owned Companies in Argentina. Astilleros y Fábricas Navales del Estado (1953–1986)

   • Cintia Russo

   Pages 113-139

10. Industrial Policy and the Role of MITI in Japan

    • Shinji Fukukawa, Franco Amatori, Corrado Molteni

    Pages 141-151

11. The Public Sector and the Regime of Capital in India, 1947–1975

    • Chirashree Das Gupta

    Pages 153-177

12. Formation of Industrial Complexes in South Korea in the 1960s and 1970s: Reconsidering Entrepreneurial State in Asia

    • Eugene K. Choi

    Pages 179-198

13. Back Matter

    Pages 199-201

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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.

• Enterprise
• Managers
• Public sector
• Industrial policy
• State-owned enterprises
• Human resource management
• Economic history
• Western Europe
• India
• South Asia
• Latin America

• Department of History, Humanities and Society, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

  Daniela Felisini

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.

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