French enterprise and the challenge of the British water industry : water without frontiers

著者

• Maclean, Mairi

書誌事項

French enterprise and the challenge of the British water industry : water without frontiers

by Mairi MacLean

Avebury, c1991

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-136) and indexes

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Eighteen months before the November 1989 privatization of the ten regional water authorities of England and Wales, the UK market for public water supply began to be "invaded" by three French distributors. They entered the market by a route which everyone else had overlooked: the lilliputian world of the private water companies. This book seeks to assess the potential advantages and disadvantages for Britain of this French presence. It highlights those ideas which may play a key role in determining the future success of Britain's water businesses in the 1990s, when, with the advent of the single market, competition in Europe is stepped up. It suggests that foremost among the differences which may be of importance are the following: sufficient room to manoeuvre on the part of management teams; management ambition and capabilities; a cultural leap from public to private sector; and the cultivation and projection of a favourable image in accordance with a new identity. Finally, the book selects some of the broader implications of the episode for Britain and France in post-1992 Europe.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA21008296
• ISBN:
  • 1856281000
• LCCN: 92135107
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Aldershot ; Brookfield, USA
• ページ数/冊数: xiii, 144 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : HD4465.G7
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Waterworks -- Great Britain -- Foreign ownership
  • LCSH : Privatization -- Great Britain
  • LCSH : Corporations, French -- Great Britain