Henry-Meininger, Marie-Christine

Les entreprises publique face à la crise : l'évolution du secteur de l'énergie et des matières premières - Paris : IIAP, oct./déc. 1981

The international crisis has led public energy and raw material suppliers to engage in large structural transformations, viz. branching out, take-ouvers both in France and abroad, and setting up consortiums, whereas the adoption of private industry structures and management, blurring the line between both sectors, have resulted in a transfer of functions from one to the other, diminishing the specific of public enterprise. The phenomenon is partly exlpained by the international crisis, calling for ideological and political reactions.. A wider conherence of the public sector and a clearer definition of what belongs to overall planning and what to the autonomy of public enterprise will determine the success of the nationalizations