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Public Services in Spain: The Role of Water Supply Companies

In: Companies and Entrepreneurs in the History of Spain

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  • Juan Manuel Matés-Barco

    (University of Jaén)

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This chapter is a study about private drinking water supply companies in Spain between 1840 and 1936. The first objective is to consider the role they occupied within the Spanish business context. The appearance of these companies was determined by the very nature of the business—a regulated public service—anchored to the structure of the natural monopoly and the administrative concession. The second objective is to analyse the business strategy practised by companies to dominate the market, while describing their main characteristics: terms of concessions, stability and survival over time.

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  • Juan Manuel Matés-Barco, 2021. "Public Services in Spain: The Role of Water Supply Companies," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: María Vázquez-Fariñas & Pedro Pablo Ortúñez-Goicolea & Mariano Castro-Valdivia (ed.), Companies and Entrepreneurs in the History of Spain, chapter 0, pages 135-159, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-030-61318-1_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-61318-1_9
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