Defence procurement and employment: the case of UK shipbuilding
以英国造船业为例，研究国防采购政策变化对军舰建造业的影响，以及利用采购创造和维持就业的潜力，发现竞争性招标多为表面功夫，将军舰订单用作就业政策也未能成功。
This article provides a case study of defense procurement policy in the United Kingdom. The study specifically relates to the impact of the changes in the U.K. government's defense policy on the warshipbuilding industry and the potential to use procurement for the creation and maintenance of employment. The study demonstrates that for the shipbuilding industry much of the attempt to introduce competitive tendering has been cosmetic. The use of warship orders as employment policy is also seen to be a failure. Copyright 1990 by Oxford University Press.