1. Introduction -- Background -- The purpose and pattern of the book -- Part I: Trade and industrialization in post-revolutionary Iran. 2. Government, trade and industries -- Market failures and state interventions in foreign trade -- Trade policies and industrialization -- Non-trade policies and industrialization -- Summary and implications for an oil-exporting country -- 3. Trade and industrialization between and 1960 and 1979 -- Trade and industrial policies -- Trade and industrial performance -- 4. Iranian trade policies and consequences after the revolution -- Foreign trade: controversies and legislation -- The post-revolutionary trade system -- Foreign trade trends after the revolution -- Concluding remarks -- 5. Industrialization in post-revolutionary Iran -- Industrial sector in post-revolutionary Iran: a review of evidence -- Dominance of government in the industrial sector -- Industries, trade and foreign exchange policies -- Iranian national technological capabilities -- Concluding remarks -- Part II: Weakness/Strength of the industrial relationships between Iranian and foreign firms and impact of the trade policy -- 6. Industrial relationships and political constraints -- Where are we going? -- Empirical investigation -- Different analytical views for firms' industrial activities -- Industrial network theory -- Summary -- 7. Industrial relationships between Iranian and foreign firms -- Technological exchange relationship with foreign suppliers -- Adaptations -- Social Interaction with the foreign firms -- A short history of the Iranian firms' relationships -- Summary -- 8. Impact of the foreign trade policy on the Iranian and foreign firms; industrial relationships -- Impact of the Iranian political organizations -- Impact of other business firms in the environment -- The comparative impact of political and business units -- Challenging political uncertainty -- Comments on the results -- 9. Summary and conclusions -- Government, trade and industrialization -- Trade and industrialization in Iran after the revolution -- National technological capabilities and economic reforms -- Values in the Iranian firms' business relationships -- Failure of the business market -- Restricted market investment -- Political capability -- Concluding remarks: government, market and development.