Transforming Public Enterprise in Europe and North America

At the beginning of the C21st, utilities in energy, telecommunications, transport and water emerged as leading TNCs. How and why did this unprecedented transition occur? Leading authorities from Europe, Russia, Canada, Mexico and the United States analyse the business, economic and historical contexts that have influenced these changes.

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SEAN D. BARRETT Senior Lecturer in Ecomomics and Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland FRANS BUELENS Professor of Economics at HIVT and Senior Researcher at the University of Antwerp, Belgium CANDRA S.CHAHYADI Ph.D candidate at the University of Oklahoma, USA LEANA ANDERSSON-SKOG Professor of Economic History at the Univeristy of Umea FRANCISCO COMIN Professor of Economic History at the University of Alca, Spain DANIEL DIAZ FUENTES Professor of Economics at the University of Cantabria PATRICK FRIDENSON Professor of History and Diretcor of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales MARINA KILNOVA Senior Research Associate at the Centre for European Studies of the Inbstitute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences, and lecturer at the Moscow International High School of Business (MIRBIS) PIERRE LANTHIER Professor at the Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres, Canada CARLOS MARICHAL Professor of Economic History at the Colegio de Mexico WILLIAM L.MEGGINSON Professor and Rainbolt Chair in Finance at the Univeristy of Oklahoma's Michael F.Price College of Business, USA ROBERT MILLWARD Professor of Economic History, University of Manchester, UK ANA BELA NUNES Professor of Economic History at Umea Univeristy JESUS M.SALAS PhD candidate at the University of Oklahoma, USA HARM G.SCHROTER Professor of Economic History at the University of Bergen PIER ANGELO TONINELLI Professor of History and Business History at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Milan-Bicocca NUNO VALERIO Professor of Economic History at the Institute of Economics and Management, Lisbon MICHELANGELO VASTA Professor in Economic History at the University of Siena JULIEN VAN DEN BROECK Professor of Economics at the University of Antwerp, Belgium HANS WILLEMS Recently completed his doctoral dissertation on the institutional history of the stock exchanges in the nineteenth century at the University of Antwerp.

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Introduction: From "Ugly Ducklings" to "New Economic Swans": On the Rise of Public Network Services in Europe and the Americas; J.Clifton, F.Comín& D.D.Fuentes Cross Border Investment and Service Flows in Network Industries within Western Europe c.1830-1980; R.Millward Public Enterprises in Transition: The Case of France; P.Fridenson Public Enterprise and Public Networks in Italy 1952-2001: A Quantitative Profile; P.A.Toninelli& M.Vasta Ugly Ducklings Growth in Germany; H.G.Schröter Institutional Change and State Enterprise: The UK in Comparative Perspective 1945-90; R.Millward On the Emergence of Spanish Transnational Public Enterprises; F.Comín, D.D.Fuentes& J.Clifton Privatisation and Transnationalisation in Portugal (1980-2005) ; A.B.Nunes, C.Bastien& N.Valério Scandinavian Experiences of Network Industries. Public Enterprises and Changing Welfare Policies 1950-2005; L.Andersson-Skog& T.Pettersson Transforming Public Enterprises in Ireland: The Case Study of Air Transportation; S.Barrett Ownership and Trans-Nationalisation in the Benelux: The Case of the Belgian Railways 1834-2004; F.Buelens, J.van den Broeck& H.Willems Large Network Transnationalisation in Russia; M.Klinova The International Activities of Three Canadian Public Electrical Companies: Hydro-Québec, BC Hydro and Manitoba Hydro from 1988 to Today; P.Lanthier Transforming Public Enterprises in México: The Case of TELMEX; J.Clifton, D.D.Fuentes& C.Marichal American Exceptionalism? Privatisation and Transnationalisation in the United States; C.S.Chahyadi, W.L.Megginson& J.M.Salas Conclusions: The Future for Public Network Services; J.Clifton, F.Comín& D.D.Fuentes