Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: the business–government relationship
- Part I The business–politics paradigm
- Part II Banking finance
- Part III Business and politics in the National Socialist period
- Part IV The business community and the state
- 12 Government and industry in Austria in the 1930s
- 13 Business and politics: the state and networks in Greece
- 14 Economic efficiency and nationality: the Siemens subsidiary Elektrotechna in the first Czechoslovakian Republic
- Appendix: Alice Teichova: a select bibliography
- Index
13 - Business and politics: the state and networks in Greece
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: the business–government relationship
- Part I The business–politics paradigm
- Part II Banking finance
- Part III Business and politics in the National Socialist period
- Part IV The business community and the state
- 12 Government and industry in Austria in the 1930s
- 13 Business and politics: the state and networks in Greece
- 14 Economic efficiency and nationality: the Siemens subsidiary Elektrotechna in the first Czechoslovakian Republic
- Appendix: Alice Teichova: a select bibliography
- Index
Summary
Introduction
In this chapter I shall attempt to explore the relationship between business and politics by focusing on the role of Greece as a developmental and entrepreneurial state. Looking at networks allows us to observe relations between the real agents of power, i.e. businessmen and politicians, and to assess changes in the degree of complementarity between economic interests (and economic power) exercised by various groups, on the one hand, and political authority embodied by the modern state, especially by the government and its agencies, on the other. The cases presented are intended to highlight the changing relationship between business and politics arising out of the evolution of the Greek state at different moments during the last 100 years. The nature of networks is also explored, both as mechanisms of adjustment and as channels of influence and power. References are made, following the history of the growth of the Greek state, to two main periods, namely: the end of the nineteenth century; and the inter-war years. Some analogies are also drawn with regard to recent developments.
The state and networks in the Balkans
Starting with the recent period, reference should be made to the role of the Greek state in relation to business expansion and its consequences within the framework of growing internationalisation in the Balkan region. Economic diplomacy provides abundant instances for testing the hypothesis that today private economic and state interests are increasingly more complementary.
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- Business and Politics in Europe, 1900–1970Essays in Honour of Alice Teichova, pp. 289 - 306Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003
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