Public Enterprise in Western Europe

Henry Parris, Pierre Pestieau and Peter Saynor

• 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