Abstract
The methodology developed in a preceding article, "The Output of Distributive Systems: A Conceptual Framework," is applied to a comparison of the Australian, Dutch, and West German distributive systems. System output is affected by the level and composition of final demand and by the structure of that system. Final demand and structure, in turn, are affected by the environment in which the system exists. No theory linking the distributive system and particular environmental fields currently exists, however. Such a theory needs to be developed before causal statements regarding this relationship can be made.
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