Defence Procurement and Industry Policy : A small country perspective

ISBN-13: 9780415362887 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 416 str.

Stefan Markowski; S. Markowski

Opis

In many countries, defense acquisitions comprise the largest component of all government procurement and in most, equipment acquisitions alone account for 25-30% of defense budget.
The products purchased vary from simple staple products (e.g., small arms munitions) to technologically sophisticated and complex systems (e.g., aircraft carriers and space telecommunications). Acquisition entails difficult choices to determine what to buy, who to buy from, and how to go about buying. For many defense producers, their home government is the major, and frequently the only, buyer of their output. Thus, government procurement policies can influence the size, structure, performance and profitability of domestic defense industry. In that sense, government defense procurement and industry polices tend to be strongly interrelated.
Despite the scale, complexity and importance of defense procurement, it remains a relatively under-researched area amongst economists, lawyers and social scientists. Most researchhas concentrated on the USA - this book looks at defense procurement from the point of view of smaller, but nevertheless significant countries - including Israel, Spain and Australia.

Spis treści

PART 1. AN OVERVIEW AND CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS 1. Procurement and the chain of supply: A general framework Stefan Markowski, Peter Hall and Robert Wylie 2. Demand: Military products, user requirements, and the organisation of procurement Stefan Markowski, Peter Hall and Robert Wylie 3. Supply: Defence industry Stefan Markowski, Peter Hall and Robert Wylie 4. Buyer-seller interaction in defence procurement Stefan Markowski, Peter Hall and Robert Wylie 5. Government policy: Defence procurement and defence industry Stefan Markowski, Peter Hall and Robert Wylie PART 2. NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES 6. The Australian defence value adding chain: Evolution and experimentation Stefan Markowski, Peter Hall and Robert Wylie 7. Canadian defence procurement Ugurhan Berkok 8. Defence structure, procurement and industry: The case of Israel K. Kagan, O. Setter, Y. Shefi and A. Tishler 9. Small country ‘total defence’: A case study of Singapore Ron Matthews and Nellie Zhang Yan 10. Importing defence technologies: Why have Spanish policies changed? Jordi Molas-Gallart 11. From certainty to uncertainty: Sweden’s armament policy in transition Björn Hagelin 12. National Defence Organisation and defence procurement in The Netherlands Erik Dirksen PART 3. INDUSTRY CASE STUDIES 13. Industry case study: Australian naval shipbuilding Stefan Markowski and Robert Wylie 14. Managing the defence value adding chain: Australian procurement of over-the-horizon radar Robert Wylie and Stefan Markowski Conclusion

O autorze

Stefan Markowski is an Associate Professor of the University of New South Wales in the School of Business at The Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia. Peter Hall is an Emeritus Professor at the University of New South Wales at The Australian Defence Force Academy. Robert Wylie is a Lecturer in the School of Business at the University of New South Wales at The Australian Defence Force Academy.