History of the Commonwealth Development Corporation, 1948-1972
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- Author(s) Rendell, William
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1976
- Pages 294pp; illus
- Publisher Heinemann Educational Books
- Place Published London
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The author was General Manager, 1953-73. 'This is the story of the building of a business organization and of its struggle to succeed - a business with a difference in that profit was not the primary object, though an essential factor in motivation. It records also the efforts of many people - sometimes effective and sometimes not - to tackle the problems which were met along the way'. Covers, inter alia, relations with Colonial Office; project achievements; organisation and systems of internal control; 'nursery projects' - Swaziland Irrigation Scheme and Borneo Abaca Ltd; industrial investments and development companies; housing development and mortgage finance; less successful projects and others 'causing concern'; Lord Reith, chairman