ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|18 pages

The making of the First Czechoslovak Republic and the national control of companies

The nostrification policy and economic nationalism, 1918–1938*

chapter 3|26 pages

The making of a puzzling industry

Historical perspectives on Japan’s petrochemical industry

chapter 4|42 pages

Corporate governance and public policy

‘New’ initiatives by ‘Old’ Labour to reform stakeholder behaviour in the UK, 1965–1969