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The managing of competition: Government and industry relationships in the jute industry 1957–63

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Morelli CJ, Tomlinson J & Wright V (2012) The managing of competition: Government and industry relationships in the jute industry 1957–63. Business History, 54 (5), pp. 765-782. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2011.631129

Abstract
This paper examines the development of the 1963 court case brought by the Board of Trade's Restrictive Trading Agreements Office against jute manufacturers, in order to examine the impact of the newly introduced competition policy for government–business relationships. Government's active enforcement of competition marked an important change in the direction of industrial policy in the UK and the jute industry was one of the cases to be examined.

Keywords
jute; Britain; competition; cartels; government

StatusPublished
FundersThe Leverhulme Trust
Publication date31/08/2012
Publication date online02/04/2012
Date accepted by journal06/08/2011
PublisherInforma UK Limited
ISSN0007-6791
eISSN1743-7938

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Dr Valerie Wright

Dr Valerie Wright

Research Fellow, Dementia and Ageing