1st Edition

Politics and Rhetoric of Italian State Steel Privatisation A Gramscian Analysis

By Edoardo Mollona, Luca Pareschi Copyright 2022
216 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The globally spreading privatisation wave that occurred in the 1990s deeply changed the structure of economic institutions worldwide. This turmoil overturned not only economic institutions, but shared cultural and societal institutions as well. This book is the result of an investigation into the history of the privatisation of the steel industry in Italy, completed between 1994 and 1995. It... Read more

1. Introduction 2. Institutional Theory 3. Gramscian Theory on Hegemony 4. Methodology 5. Latent Meaning Spaces 6. Fragmentation of the Historical Bloc 7. Settlement of the Historical Bloc 8. Stabilisation 9. Conclusion

Biography

Edoardo Mollona is full professor of business ethics and corporate strategy in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Bologna, Italy.

Luca Pareschi is Assistant Professor at "Tor Vergata", University of Rome, Italy.