Contract and Economic Organisation: Socio-Legal Initiatives

Author: David Campbell
Published: April 1996
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Limited
ISBN: 1855216949
Hardcover Book
Number of Pages: 278

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The proceedings of the 1994 annual conference of the Socio-Legal Studies Association held in Nottingham, England. The 11 papers include both theoretical and empirical studies of the contract as a central concept in both academic debate and mainstream government policy in Britain in the 1990s. The theoretical offerings emphasize the decline of the classical law and increased importance of co-operation and relationality. The empirical studies examine contracts in the National Health Service and local governments, noting the movement from hierarchical to market and quasi-market structures. Distributed by Ashgate.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Foreword
1 Franchising: The Draftsman's Contract 3
2 From Co-operative Contracting to a Contract of Co-operation 14
3 The Relational Constitution of the Discrete Contract 40
4 Competing Norms of Contractual Behaviour 67
5 Contracts, Co-operation and Trust: The Role of the Institutional Framework 95
6 The Parasitic Role of Hybrids 116
7 Relational Contracts and Repeated Games 125
8 Long-term Contracts in the Market for Health Care 143
9 Contracts in the NHS: Searching for a Model? 155
10 Limits of Contract in Internal CCT Transactions: A Comparative Study of Buildings Cleaning and Refuse Collection in 'Northern Metropolitan' 180
11 Contracts for Public Services: A Comparative Perspective 212
Cases 237
References 239
Index 261

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