"Defence Procurement and Industry Policy: A Small Country Perspective" by ed. Stefan Markowski, Peter Hall and Robert Wylie

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"Defence Procurement and Industry Policy: A Small Country Perspective" by ed. Stefan Markowski, Peter Hall and Robert Wylie
Routledge Studies in Defence and Peace Economics
Routledge, F&T | 2010 | ISBN: 0203013697 9780415362887 9780203013694 | 417 pages | PDF | 6 MB

This volume presents a general framework for understanding smaller country defence procurement supported by country, industry and project studies.

The book addresses the needs of public and private sector managers, military planners, procurement specialists, industry policy-makers, and defence procurement and industry educators. It presents general principles in an accessible manner and points to real-world experience to illustrate the principles at work.

Part I provides a general framework for analysing smaller country defence procurement, focusing on the formation of national defence capabilities. The framework is then used to analyse issues around the development of procurement demand, the characteristics of defence industry supply, contracts and relationships between buyers and sellers, and government policy for defence procurement and industry development.
Part II focuses on defence procurement in seven smaller industrial nations with widely varying historical and political settings (Australia, Canada, Israel, Singapore, Spain, Sweden and The Netherlands).
Part III consists of two Australian case studies of the procurement issues raised in, respectively, the naval shipbuilding industry and a major, complex defence project.

Contents
Figures
Tables
Boxes
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Conceptual foundations
1 Procurement and the chain of supply: A general framework
2 Demand: Military products, user requirements, and the organisation of procurement
3 Supply: Defence industry
4 Buyer seller interaction in defence procurement
5 Government policy: Defence procurement and defence industry
Part II. National perspectives
6 The Australian defence value-adding chain: Evolution and experimentation
7 Canadian defence procurement
8 Defence structure, procurement and industry: The case of Israel
9 Small country Total Defence': A case study of Singapore
10 Importing defence technologies: Why have Spanish policies changed?
11 From certainty to uncertainty: Sweden's armament policy in transition
12 National Defence Organisation and defence procurement in The Netherlands
Part III. Industry case studies
13 Industry case study: Australian naval shipbuilding
14 Managing the defence value-adding chain: Australian procurement of over-the-horizon radar
15 Conclusion
Index of authors
Index of subjects
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