The growing practice of outsourcing within many industrialized countries has placed increasing pressure on occupational health and safety (OHS) regulatory regimes and the agencies that administer them. After briefly identifying how outsourcing/subcontracting can undermine OHS, the paper analyzes...

Addresses the appropriate structuring of the firm's business model in the context of new economy holonic networks. States that this requires some framework for analysing the firm's business model relative to the opportunities offered by those networks and alliances. Proposes that some...