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Markets, Hierarchies and Networks Grahame Thompson

Markets, Hierarchies and Networks By Grahame Thompson

Markets, Hierarchies and Networks by Grahame Thompson

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This text presents a set of articles which attempt to answer basic questions on the co-ordination of social life by using models of markets, hierarchy and networks. These three models aim to provide a basis for the analysis of social life that transcends time and place.

Markets, Hierarchies and Networks Summary

Markets, Hierarchies and Networks: The Coordination of Social Life by Grahame Thompson

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.

Markets, Hierarchies and Networks Reviews

`In summary, it can be recorded that this is a substantial book: substantial in a number of respects. First it has much of substance to it - it covers a lot of ground. Second, as most papers in the book are closely argued, it covers that ground in some depth - there are few opportunities for the reader to coast here! It is also substantial in that, whether because of the inherent nature of the subject matter or the way it is exposed, its sparks ideas along the way and raises many more questions than it answers. Finally, it is substantial in the way the editors touch upon issues which are central to epistemology, the sociology of knowledge, and the philosophy of science.' - Systems Practice

About Grahame Thompson

Grahame Thompson is Professor of Political Economy at The Open University CONTRIBUTORS ARE ALL AT THE OPEN UNIVERSITY EXCEPT: Susan Baker Cardiff University Chris Dent University of Lincoln and Humberside John Grahl University of North London Valerio Lintner London Guildhall University Mike Moran University of Manchester

Table of Contents

Introduction - Jennifer Frances et al PART ONE: MARKETS Introduction - Rosalind Levaci[ac]c On Markets - Alfred Marshall Markets and Government - Rosalind Levaci[ac]c An Overview Socialism, Planning, and the Market - Hans Breitenbach, Tom Burden and David Coates Market Process versus Market Equilibrium - Israel M Krizner Markets and Managerial Hierarchies - Tony McGuinness Creating the Single European Market - Dennis Swann Which Internal Market? The NHS White Paper and Internal Markets - Penelope M Mullen PART TWO: HIERARCHIES Introduction - Jeremy Mitchell In Praise of Hierarchy - Elliott Jaques Legal Authority in a Bureaucracy - Max Weber Models of Bureaucracy - David Beetham Survival Inside Bureaucracy - Guy Benveniste Market, Capitalism, Planning and Technocracy - Giovanni Sartori New Directions for Industrial Policy in the Area of Regulatory Reform - John Vickers PART THREE: NETWORKS Introduction - Grahame Thompson Network Analysis - David Knoke and James H Kuklinkski Basic Concepts Neither Friends nor Strangers - Edward H Lorenz Informal Networks of Subcontracting in French Industry Beyond Vertical Integration - The Rise of the Value-Adding Partnership - Russell Johnston and Paul R Lawrence Policy Networks and Sub-Central Government - R A W Rhodes Taking and Giving - Pnina Werbner Working Women and Female Bonds in a Pakistani Immigrant Neighbourhood Community, Market, State - and Associations? The Prospective Contribution of Interest Governance to Social Order - Wolfgang Streeck and Philippe C Schmitter PART THREE: COMPARISON BETWEEN MODELS Introduction - Grahame Thompson Markets, Bureaucracies and Clans - William G Ouchi Interorganizational Relations in Industrial Systems - Jan Johanson and Lars-Gunnar Mattsson A Network Approach Compared with the Transactions-Cost Approach Neither Market nor Hierarchy - Walter W Powell Network Forms of Organization Price, Authority and Trust - Jeffrey L Bradach and Robert G Eccles From Ideal Types to Plural Forms Spontaneous ('Grown') Order and Organized ('Made') Order - Frederick von Hayek

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GOR001669946
9780803985902
0803985908
Markets, Hierarchies and Networks: The Coordination of Social Life by Grahame Thompson
Grahame Thompson
Published in Association with The Open University
Used - Very Good
Paperback
SAGE Publications Ltd
19911114
312
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