Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington State University, May 2009. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on June 15, 2009). "Department of History." Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-235).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1959. / Typescript. Abstracted in Dissertation abstracts, v. 20 (1959) no. 1, p. 280. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [267]-278).

This thesis explores the relationship of collaboration and conflict between France's state-owned oil group, the Societe Nationale Elf Aquitaine, and successive governments during the critical decade, 1976-1986, before wide-scale privatisation was initiated. The group's development reflects the broader trend in government - industry relations away from dirigisme to market economics by both senior managers and politicians alike. Created as an instrument of government with a "national interest" mission, the group was expected to work for and with governments. This partnership was conditioned by the international nature of the oil industry. Directly exposed to the impact of the oil crisis, the group suffered from the switch made in France from oil to nuclear energy as the main source of power. This development accelerated not only the diversification of the group's product range and multinationalisation of its activities but also modified its relations with government. It remained in public ownership, but became financially independent and acted increasingly like a private company. Governments were also affected by the economic crises of the 1970s, and by France's closer integration into Europe. While Elf maximised its profits, governments relied on the oil group's wealth. This confusing combination of dependence and governments' use of their powers of ownership produced many conflicts. Yet Elf's leaders could also exploit the state link through grand corps networks to achieve their own goals. These ambiguities were sharpened during the decade because Elf was shifting between two modes of relationship; an instrument of government enjoying privileged links with the state and an independent private multinational. Partial privatisation in 1986 somewhat resolved the contradictions but heralded new challenges. Under the impact of the Single Market programme and GATT agreements, French governments divested themselves of powers they could no longer exercise, French firms shifted partnership with the state to partnership with foreign firms and the development of each individual firm became subject to its performance in the market.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 215-235).

The purpose of this investigation is to explore the policies of the government of British India and of the independent Republic of India relative to their impact on organizational structure, management practices and styles, and management education in business organizations in India. The British, who were responsible for the growth of some of the organized industries in India, also gave the country, among other things, a modern educational system. They left India, however, with a limited industrial base. There was a serious shortage of professional managers to meet the demands of growing industry. Upon independence, the national government through its policies encouraged the development of business and industries and brought awareness among business managers of the importance of management education.

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The objective of this study is to determine the cost of producing apples in British Columbia and Washington State and then compare the estimated costs between the two regions. A conventional 'cost of production model, whereby long-run costs (i.e. depreciation costs) have been included, is developed to determine the average per acre and per pound cost of producing apples. The model assumes a representative orchard for British Columbia and Washington State. A set of characteristics, along with a set of management schedules, are defined for each of the representative orchards. In keeping with the assumption that the representative orchards include mature as well as trees in various establishment stages, each management schedule defines a set of operations for trees of a specific age. There are nine schedules representing trees age one through mature. Aside from the type of operations performed, each management schedule also specifies the number of times an operation is executed, the type of machine(s) used, the machine and labour time required, and the material/service cost involved. From the information provided in the management schedules, a corresponding set of production cost schedules is developed. These schedules show the depreciation, opportunity, insurance, repair and maintenance, fuel and lubricant, labour and material/service costs associated with each operation. The theory of Capital Budgeting is used here to provide a consistent and accurate estimation of the per hour or annual cost of machinery, equipment and buildings. For each schedule, the sum of the total cost per operation plus the overhead charges, interest on operating capital, and rent and tan on land yield the per acre cost of producing apples. A comparison based on the per acre cost by tree age is performed to determine cost differences that may exist at this level. On average (average of orchard block) per acre cost is determined for British Columbia and Washington State based on the proportion of trees of a specific age and its total cost. This average per acre cost is compared, as well as the individual categories of costs (i.e. labour) to determine where differentials exist between the two regions. Based on an average per acre yield, per pound cost of producing apples is also calculated. The efficiency ratio, total ouput value/total input value, is calculated and compared to provide an insight into British Columbia's producer’s ability to extract profits from inputs. / Land and Food Systems, Faculty of / Graduate

The purpose of this study has been to analyze the effect of market regulation in the broiler industry in British Columbia and Washington State by comparing and contrasting the structure, conduct and performance of two institutions established to provide a degree of organization by producers in the marketing of broiler chickens. The two institutions studied have been the B.C. Broiler Marketing Board, in the province of British Columbia, Canada and the Washington Fryer Commission, in the state of Washington, United States of America. An analysis of the structure and conduct of the B.C. Broiler Marketing Board and the Washington Fryer Commission has been presented. An objectives model for organized marketing in the agricultural sector has been proposed, and from this model criteria have been chosen upon which to evaluate the market performance of the two structures with respect to organized marketing. It has been observed that the powers held by the B.C. Broiler Marketing Board are far more extensive than those held by the Washington Fryer Commission. It has been further observed that the performance of the B.C. Broiler Marketing Board has been primarily restrictive in nature and has had serious negative effects on the market environment for broiler chickens in British Columbia. The performance of the Washington Fryer Commission has been supportive in nature, and has had a positive effect on the market environment for broiler chickens in Washington State. In analysing the two approachs to organized marketing in the broiler industry, it has been concluded that the vesting of powerful tools of market regulation with primary producer groups (whose interests are narrowly defined) leads to inefficiencies in production and marketing which have serious effects on the industry as a whole. / Land and Food Systems, Faculty of / Graduate

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Southwest Washington labor history has received little examination by scholars. Focusing mainly on Seattle, Everett, Centralia, and Spokane, historians view Southwest Washington, a traditionally conservative community, to be of little importance in the state's overall historical narrative. This thesis corrects that assumption and the omission of Southwest Washington. The failure of the unionization effort in Camas impacted organization in Pacific Northwest paper mills for nearly a decade. Although workers failed to sustain their union, the events in Camas between 1913 and 1918 present an excellent new laboratory and case study to explore the intersection of gender, labor, and politics. Despite rough edges and sometimes missing voices within the extant record of the time, this thesis suggests the potential for historians to dig deep into the archives, produce original scholarship, and tell a forgotten story. This work is also ambitious, striving to examine the role gender, labor, and leftists' politics played in the paper mill city of Camas and Washington State. Chapter one examines the first-ever strike of forty women in the Camas bag factory. Chapter two explores the organization of the mills' first union. Chapter three accounts for the rise and fall of the town's only Socialist mayor. Each of these chapters alone could be the topic of a single study and each involves a particular segment of historical scholarship. The chapters are layered and refer to each other, with layers of context added in each one. The themes of this thesis also orbit around a fight over meaning and historical memory. My research shows that during the tumultuous social, economic, and political events from 1913 to 1918 there was an active erasure and forgetting of people and events. These silencings amid a major uproar in a "labor village" partly accounts for the thinness of the archives and the haunted, subjugated quality of the memory of working peoples' activism in Camas. I suggest that labor, management, and the political establishment were all invested in a particular mythos of Camas as a "labor village." Camas was, and is, a company town and "labor village." Camas had a face-to-face quality to its social relations and members of the community felt pressure to maintain this quality, sometimes in opposition to "outside" voices. This scenario put special demands on the people involved with organizing and activism, as they functioned without the big city anonymity of Seattle or Portland. The Camas story is shorter, more concentrated, and more intimate than the stories of these large urban centers. The brief moment of change around the war strained the fraternal bonds of the town. The pain and injury of this strain in Camas were rhetorically covered and hidden. Most of the residents either never spoke of what happened or willed themselves to forget. The memory and knowledge of the events remain to this day imprisoned within their minds and town. This work intends to, after nearly a hundred years, bring back the memories and question the story told about Camas and about ourselves.