Archive

As part of its ongoing research CRIC undertook a project on electronic commerce for the Panel on Retail and Consumer Services of the Office of Science and Technology's ForeSight programme. Below you will find the two reports that were produced.
- Defining E-commerce
- Exploring the Effects of E-Commerce
Report for the Retail & Consumer Services Foresight Panel
Adobe Acrobat .pdf file 276Kb- Consumer E-Commerce: Scenario Analysis
Report for the Retail & Consumer Services Foresight Panel
Adobe Acrobat .pdf file 182Kb- Clicks and Mortar The published version of the two reports above edited by the OST - available on the Foresight web site
- Alternative Paradigms for European E-commerce: McMeekin, Miles & Rutter
IPTS Report Special Issue: Technology & Policy Frameworks for E-Commerce
CRIC has combined with PREST to form the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR).
New book: Trust in Food, A Comparative and Institutional Analysis by Unni Kjaernes, Mark Harvey & Alan Warde.
CRIC Final Report to ESRC:"Main Report" and "CRIC Performance Indicators 1997-2006".
'Instituted Or Embedded? Legal, Fiscal and Economic Institutionalisation of Markets' by Mark Harvey
'Beyond Efficiency and Market Shares: Competition within the Finnish Games Industry' by Mirva Peltoniemi
'Accounting for Economic Evolution: Fitness and the Population Method' by Stan Metcalfe
'Innovation and Final Consumption: Social Practices, Instituted Modes of Provision and Intermediation' by Andrew McMeekin & Dale Southerton
'Alfred Marshall’s Mecca: Reconciling the Theories of Value and Development' by Stan Metcalfe