'United Kingdom. An experiment in picking winners - the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation' in B Hindley (ed), State Investment Companies in Western Europe. Picking winners of backing losers?
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- Author(s) Hindley, Brian, & Ray Richardson
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1983
- Pages pp125-55
- Publisher Macmillan for the Trade Policy Research Centre
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Assesses the activities and performance of the IRC, 1966-71. Sections include: 'Functions, criteria and procedures of the IRC'; 'Activities of the IRC' - 'Sponsored mergers without IRC finance' / 'Sponsored mergers with IRC finance'; 'Assessing the performance of IRC' - 'measuring profitability'; 'Some results'. Includes a table 'Performance of individual IRC sponsored companies'. Has an appendix 'The fifty-four relevant IRC projects and the Section 2(1)b cases'