TY - BOOK AU - Harlow,Christopher TI - Innovation and productivity under nationalisation: the first thirty years SN - 0046000038 AV - T173.8 .H37 U1 - 338.4'7'60941 PY - 1977/// CY - London PB - George Allen & Unwin Ltd. KW - Technological innovations KW - Government business enterprises N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - The core of this book consists of five main chapters. Each one deals with a different British public corporation and examines the way in which the corporation has introduced technical change in its capital equipment over a period of approximately thirty years. The organizations chosen for the study were: 1) the National Coal Board; 2) the British Gas Corporation (formerly Gas Council and Area Gas Boards); 3) the European branch of British Airways (formerly British European Airways); 4) the Central Electricity Generating Board (formerly the generation and transmission division of the Central Electricity Authority); and 5) the telecommunications service of the Post Office. ER -