This project sought to examine the impacts of National Competition Policy (NCP) on investment in Australian general freight and passenger railways, and more generally to assess the rationale underlying NCP and related economic reforms applied to Australian railways. It does not appear that NCP...

This paper examines a potential approach to introduce a topology to the Resource Based View (RBV) of the firm to address the issue of the formation of intangible assets and predictions of the growth of the firm by RBV, both issues which have been identified in the literature as shortcomings of...

The economic regulation of Australia's railways under the aegis of National Competition Policy has exhibited a fairly standard neoclassical viewpoint of how a firm operates, with basic notions of pricing according to marginal cost and resulting economic efficiencies. The framework, however,...