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dc.contributor.authorGarzon Delvaux, Pedro Andresen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2012-05-23T15:53:12Zen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-21T10:33:32Z
dc.date.issued2011-09-23en_GB
dc.description.abstractThe wood energy market remains nascent in the UK, despite climate change policies and energy security concerns. Transaction costs have been identified as one barrier to woodfuel development. However, few studies provide explicit insights into such barriers to spontaneous exchange in this sector and how they influence its formation. The study approaches the development of woodfuel in the South West Region of England through Transaction Costs Economics (TCE) and aims to identify the appropriate governance structure of the supply chain as a response to existing transactions costs. When transaction costs increase, seamless market exchange gradually gives way to credible contracting and even to full vertical integration or unified ownership. The TCE approach provides insights to analyse friction and barriers to exchange and allows for a dialogue between economics, law and day-to-day business decision-making. Fuel procurement from woodfuel suppliers to woodfuel users is central to this project in looking at the barriers to exchange. Original data was collected through 42 in-depth interviews, mainly with suppliers themselves but also from Forestry Commission, regional agencies, NGOs and lobbies involved. The results suggest the influence of transaction costs. Also, there is some evidence that wood-energy regional actors are embracing organisational diversity from known rural business structures to less familiar ones in the UK, such as cooperatives and new partnerships as answers to, among other factors, transaction costs. The evidence suggests that not only support to demand and supply is necessary, as generally identified, but it is also needed at its interface by supporting the governance of the supply chain. Some practical implications for both public and private sectors are identified to better articulate the response to this need.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipGreat Western Researchen_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipLord Clinton’s Trust Funden_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipClinton Devon Estatesen_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10036/3540en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherUniversity of Exeteren_GB
dc.subjectwoodfuelen_GB
dc.subjectwood energyen_GB
dc.subjectbioenergyen_GB
dc.subjecttransaction costsen_GB
dc.subjectgovernanceen_GB
dc.titleWoodfuel supply chain integration in the South West of England: A transaction costs approach to bioenergy developmenten_GB
dc.typeThesis or dissertationen_GB
dc.date.available2012-05-23T15:53:12Zen_GB
dc.date.available2013-03-21T10:33:32Z
dc.contributor.advisorWinter, Michaelen_GB
dc.contributor.advisorButler, Allanen_GB
dc.publisher.departmentPoliticsen_GB
dc.type.degreetitlePhD in Politicsen_GB
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_GB
dc.type.qualificationnamePhDen_GB


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