Markets, hierarchies, and networks : the coordination of social life / edited by Grahame Thompson ... [et al.].
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TextPublication details: London ; Newbury Park : Sage Publications, 1991.Description: iv, 306 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0803985894
- 9780803985896
- 0803985908 (pbk.)
- 9780803985902 (pbk.)
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| Standard Loan | Moylish Library Main Collection | 302.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Library Use Only | R19129JKRC | ||
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This interdisciplinary reader provides a distinctive introduction to the way social, political and economic life is coordinated. It brings together three quite different models of coordination - markets, hierarchies and networks - and places them into a comparative framework, presenting a comprehensive and insightful overview of social coordination. The articles dealing with each model explore the characteristics of that coordinating mechanism, outlining key theoretical issues and drawing on various empirical examples. The final section shows how these models can be compared and contrasted. It also assesses the respective strengths, weaknesses and limitations of each model.
Markets, Hierarchies and Networks is a set book on The Open University course D212 Running the Country .
"Published in association with the Open University."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction
- Part 1 Markets
- Introduction
- On Markets
- Markets and Government
- An Overview
- Socialism, Planning, and the Market
- Market Process versus Market Equilibrium
- Markets and Managerial Hierarchies
- Creating the Single European Market
- Which Internal Market? The NHS White Paper and Internal Markets
- Part 2 Hierarchies
- Introduction
- In Praise of Hierarchy
- Legal Authority in a Bureaucracy
- Models of Bureaucracy
- Survival Inside Bureaucracy
- Market, Capitalism, Planning and Technocracy
- New Directions for Industrial Policy in the Area of Regulatory Reform
- Part 3 Networks
- Introduction
- Network Analysis
- Basic Concepts
- Neither Friends nor Strangers
- Informal Networks of Subcontracting in French Industry
- Beyond Vertical Integration - The Rise of the Value-Adding Partnership
- Policy Networks and Sub-Central Government
- Taking and Giving
- Working Women and Female Bonds in a Pakistani Immigrant Neighbourhood
- Community, Market, State - and Associations? The Prospective Contribution of Interest Governance to Social Order
- Part 3 Comparison Between Models
- Introduction
- Markets, Bureaucracies and Clans
- Interorganizational Relations in Industrial Systems
- A Network Approach Compared with the Transactions-Cost Approach
- Neither Market nor Hierarchy
- Network Forms of Organization
- Price, Authority and Trust
- From Ideal Types to Plural Forms
- Spontaneous ('Grown') Order and Organized ('Made') Order