Public Enterprise in Western Europe (1987) presents a comprehensive survey of public enterprise in Europe. It looks at the status of public enterprises, relations with governments, industrial relations, commercial policies and consumer relations, assessing the impact of privatisation and emerging trends.
Introduction.
1. The Rationale of Public Enterprise
2. The Structure and
Size of the Public Enterprise Sector
3. Management, Personnel and Industrial
Relations
4. The Operating Context Consumers, the Environment, the EEC
5.
Parliaments and Public Enterprises
6. Government Control of Public
Enterprises
7. Public Enterprise as an Instrument of Government Policy
8.
Measuring the Performance of Public Enterprise
9. The Future of Public
Enterprise: a British Perspective
Henry Parris, Pierre Pestieau and Peter Saynor
