The way in which industrial activites are organized among firms has been a fundamental theoretical concern for a long time. In practice, firms have found these matters, referred to as make-or-buy issues, difficult to analyze. This book investigates how industrial activity can be organized efficiently when the work is divided between different firms. It provides an overview of the theoretical background to these issues before developing an original analysis based framework. The classical problem of vertical integration is dealt with as a matter of how to analyze and obtain efficiency in...
The way in which industrial activites are organized among firms has been a fundamental theoretical concern for a long time. In practice, firms have fo...
As higher education rates increase throughout the westernized world, while at the same time government budget face increasing constraints, student support is recognized as crucial in many countries. This impressive new book by Bruce Chapman analyses income contingent loans and particularly their use in supporting students. With the author's experience in the design and implementation of the Australian student financial support schemes, this is a knowledgeable, interesting book that will be useful to researchers, students and policy-makers alike.
As higher education rates increase throughout the westernized world, while at the same time government budget face increasing constraints, student sup...
This book is an analysis of the economics of the fashion photography industry, written by one of the world's brightest young economic sociologists. Aspers shows how photographers gain their identity in the market and how markets are constructed at the interface of economy and art. Status, identity and style are seen as hugely important and the author makes a case for these factors being of major significance in all markets of an aesthetic nature.
This book is an analysis of the economics of the fashion photography industry, written by one of the world's brightest young economic sociologists.
The UK construction industry is the sixth largest industry in the UK in terms of turnover. During the last decade, it has undergone an unprecedented period of self-examination, including input from most of the leaders of the major suppliers and clients as well as from leading politicians, civil servants and political advisers. From 1993 to 2003, government and industry collaborated closely to achieve political and structural change in the industry and to bring about nothing less than a re-organization of the way it undertakes its business. This key text is an objective presentation of the...
The UK construction industry is the sixth largest industry in the UK in terms of turnover. During the last decade, it has undergone an unprecedente...
