NOTE: This item is not available outside the Texas A&M University network. Texas A&M affiliated users who are off campus can access the item through NetID and password authentication or by using TAMU VPN. Non-affiliated individuals should request a copy through their local library's interlibrary loan service.
Over a barrel : government influence and mergers and acquisitions in the petroleum industry : the case of Sun Oil Company, 1938- 1980
dc.contributor.advisor | Livesay, Harold C. | |
dc.creator | Powers, William Preston | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-02T20:19:55Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-09-02T20:19:55Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1993 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-1482233 | |
dc.description | Vita. | en |
dc.description.abstract | This dissertation examines the nature of government business relations, as perceived by the owners and managers of the Sun Oil Company, a large integrated oil and gas producer, transporter, refiner, and marketer. Sun has had a long and profitable career in the oil industry, success which came despite a complex, often bitter relationship with government in its regulatory and antitrust capacity. The founding Pew family has historically been quite outspoken in its opposition to what they perceived to be the government's chronic, unwelcome intrusion into the affairs of business. Sun's almost one hundred year history can be readily divided into two distinct phases. The first, the period from 1938-1947, could best be characterized as the time when Sun Company officials fought bitterly against what they thought to be excessive government domination over their industry, fearing either the government's outright takeover, or its imposition of burdensome restrictions. After freeing themselves from the government's oppression, Sun management then set out to build a growing, profitable oil concern. From 1938 to the present, Sun has undertaken several transactions that have established the firm as a highly successful petroleum company, including a merger, an aborted takeover, and a successful acquisition. Sun's survival in an endeavor where many perish, either purchased or driven out, provides the focus of this dissertation. | en |
dc.format.extent | vii, 264 leaves | en |
dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.rights | This thesis was part of a retrospective digitization project authorized by the Texas A&M University Libraries. Copyright remains vested with the author(s). It is the user's responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holder(s) for re-use of the work beyond the provision of Fair Use. | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
dc.subject | Sun Oil Company | en |
dc.subject | Major history | en |
dc.subject | Industrial policy | en |
dc.subject | Petroleum industry and trade | en |
dc.subject | Government policy | en |
dc.subject.classification | 1993 Dissertation P888 | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Sun Oil Company | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | History | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Petroleum industry and trade | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Government policy | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | United States | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Industrial policy | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | United States | en |
dc.title | Over a barrel : government influence and mergers and acquisitions in the petroleum industry : the case of Sun Oil Company, 1938- 1980 | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
thesis.degree.grantor | Texas A&M University | en |
thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy | en |
thesis.degree.name | Ph. D | en |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Adams, R. J. Q. | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Albanese, Robert | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Calvert, Robert A. | |
dc.type.genre | dissertations | en |
dc.type.material | text | en |
dc.format.digitalOrigin | reformatted digital | en |
dc.publisher.digital | Texas A&M University. Libraries | |
dc.identifier.oclc | 32651170 |
Files in this item
This item appears in the following Collection(s)
-
Digitized Theses and Dissertations (1922–2004)
Texas A&M University Theses and Dissertations (1922–2004)
Request Open Access
This item and its contents are restricted. If this is your thesis or dissertation, you can make it open-access. This will allow all visitors to view the contents of the thesis.