Reassessing the Role of Management in the Golden Age

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.

• Introduction; Daniela Felisini.- State and Enterprise: The Case of SOEs in Europe in the 20th Century; Franco Amatori.- Industrial Policy and the Role of MITI in Japan: Interview with Shinji Fukukawa; Franco Amatori and Corrado Molteni.- SASOL: From State-Owned Enterprise to Chemical Leader: Management and Strategy, 1952-1980; Grietjie Verhoef.- The Role of Military Managers in State-Owned Companies in Argentina. Astilleros y Fábricas Navales del Estado (1953-1986); Cintia Russo.- The Boards of UK Nationalised Industries and their Members c. 1950 - c. 1979 89; Neil Rollings.- The Managerial Revolution in Italy: The Managers of IRI (1945-1970); Daniela Felisini.- Two Lives both Parallel and Divergent: Pasquale Saraceno and Giorgio Fuà; Franco Amatori.- French Public Sector Managers 1945-1975: Modernization without Miracle; Patrick Fridenson.- The Public Sector and the Regime of Capital in India: 1947-1975; Chirashree Das Gupta.- Formation of Industrial Complexes in South Korea in the 1960s and 1970s: Reconsidering Entrepreneurial State in Asia; Eugene K. Choi.