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Cover Page -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Contents -- Editors' Introduction -- Professor Basil S. Yamey: a Tribute -- Part One Workings of Commodity Futures Markets -- 1. Price Determination and Storage in Commodity Markets: Soybeans and Wool -- 2. Testing the Efficiency of the Tin Futures Market on the London Metal Exchange -- Part Two Competition in Service Industries -- 3. Rising Concentration: The UK Grocery Trade 1970-1980 -- 4. The Structure and Behaviour of the British Building Society Movement -- Part Three Auction Markets -- 5. Competitive Bidding and The Price Mechanism -- Part Four Firm Behaviour -- 6. Econometric Aspects of Firm Growth Behaviour -- 7. Monopoly, Entry and Predatory Pricing: the Hoffman-LaRoche Case -- Part Five Law and Economics -- 8. Monopolistic Competition and Second Best: Some NewConceptual Schemes -- Part Six International Trade -- 9. The Impact on Exporters of Import Restrictions -- Part Seven History of Thought -- 10. The Place of Industry and Trade in the Analysis of Alfred Marshall -- Bibliography of B.S. Yamey -- Index

Beliefs and values are hard to alter; yet they strongly influence employees' attitudes towards strategic changes. Using a longitudinal case study in the oil industry, we show how to distinguish between ideological beliefs (justified by ethical values) and mundane beliefs (substantiated by knowledge structures). We explain that the willingness of workers to participate in change was promoted by a dynamic interaction between these interdependent belief sets. More critically, we show that acceptance of change did not require a change in values, but rather a change in the way that values were applied. We develop propositions that move theory forward and point to future directions for research.

Individual intellectual property right holders in music cannot easily enforce their statutory claims to exclusive usage and remuneration. Since the middle of the 19th century, composers and publishers have responded by creating collective bodies, so-called collecting societies which monitor musical activity in a given territory, and collect and distribute fees accordingly. These societies, first established in Western Europe, operate on two principles: the principle of reciprocity, linking monopolistic national societies and the principle of solidarity, making a collecting service available to all right holders at roughly the same rate. The rise of the global media corporation combined with new digital production and distribution technologies has seriously undermined these principles. The article reports recent trends drawing on over 30 interviews with executives of the five largest multinational music firms and the major copyright institutions in Germany, Japan, Sweden and the UK, including the European Commission, the World Intellectual Property Organization and national and international trade bodies. We conclude that the present structure of music copyright is likely to collapse, skewing the distribution of revenues in favour of big corporate players and global musical products if there is no institutional intervention. Policy implications are discussed.