The Role of Governments in Markets: Interventions and Unexpected Consequences in Industrial History (Routledge Focus on Industrial History) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032052988 ISBN 13: 9781032052984

Publisher: Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

John F. Wilson is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Business and Law) at Northumbria University at Newcastle, UK. He has published widely in the fields of business, management and industrial history, including ten monographs, six edited collections and over seventy articles and chapters.

Steven Toms spent fifteen years in senior management at Nottingham University, UK, as head of the undergraduate programme, chair of teaching committee and research director before becoming Head of York Management School in 2004.

Ian Jones is a Senior Research Assistant at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032052988
• ISBN 13: 9781032052984
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 134
• Editor: Wilson John F., Toms Steven, Jones Ian