Ebook: Markets, corporate behaviour and the state: International aspects of industrial organization
- Tags: Business/Management Science general
- Series: Nijenrode Studies in Economics 1
- Year: 1976
- Publisher: Springer US
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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This book originated at a meeting of American and European specialists in in dustrial organization, at the Instituut voor Bedrijfskunde, Nijenrode (The Netherlands) in August, 1974. The conference endeavored to bring together re searchers in a field where, paradoxically, the underlying phenomena studied are increasingly coordinated and internationalized, yet the observers remain pre dominantly isolated. Only rarely do they resort to comparisons between coun tries, and still less frequently to an analysis from a transnational outlook. As the contributions to this collection demonstrate, it has become clearer and clearer that -whether or not as a result of a random process, or of technological conditions, or of deliberate enterprise strategy - the determinants of market structures and their changes as time passes, have created fundamentally similar effects in different countries, resulting in industrial structures of the same kind. Thus, the largest firms and plants are found in the same sectors, and the most concentrated industries are more or less the same from one country to the other. The studies of Prais, Reid, Jacquemin & Phlips and Linda likewise show that a broad trend toward concentration has been manifest.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Determinants of Market Structure: Design for Research....Pages 3-18
International Comparisons in The Study of Industrial Organization....Pages 19-32
Power and Competition....Pages 33-52
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Concentration, Size and Performance of European Firms....Pages 55-77
Large and Small Manufacturing Enterprises in Europe and America....Pages 78-94
Theory and Evidence Concerning Mergers: An International Comparison....Pages 95-123
The Causes and Effects of Mergers....Pages 124-142
Static and Dynamic Methods for Analysing Industrial Concentration: The Italian Case....Pages 143-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
The Elements and Evolution of Market Structure....Pages 169-212
Private Planning and Social Efficiency....Pages 213-236
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Systemic Instability and the Global Corporation at Home: The Role of Power in Economic Analysis....Pages 239-263
Industrial Policy and the Structural Impact of Multinational Firms: An Analytical View....Pages 264-279
Theoretical Elements for an Introduction to Petroleum Economics....Pages 280-300
Front Matter....Pages 301-301
Concerted Action as an Aspect of Oligopolistic Behaviour and Its Treatment in Competition Policy....Pages 303-315
Perfect and Free Competition as Guiding Principles in Competition Policy Towards Large Enterprises....Pages 316-323
Industrial Structure and Price/Wage Controls: The U.S. Experience....Pages 324-349
Back Matter....Pages 350-353
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Determinants of Market Structure: Design for Research....Pages 3-18
International Comparisons in The Study of Industrial Organization....Pages 19-32
Power and Competition....Pages 33-52
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Concentration, Size and Performance of European Firms....Pages 55-77
Large and Small Manufacturing Enterprises in Europe and America....Pages 78-94
Theory and Evidence Concerning Mergers: An International Comparison....Pages 95-123
The Causes and Effects of Mergers....Pages 124-142
Static and Dynamic Methods for Analysing Industrial Concentration: The Italian Case....Pages 143-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
The Elements and Evolution of Market Structure....Pages 169-212
Private Planning and Social Efficiency....Pages 213-236
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Systemic Instability and the Global Corporation at Home: The Role of Power in Economic Analysis....Pages 239-263
Industrial Policy and the Structural Impact of Multinational Firms: An Analytical View....Pages 264-279
Theoretical Elements for an Introduction to Petroleum Economics....Pages 280-300
Front Matter....Pages 301-301
Concerted Action as an Aspect of Oligopolistic Behaviour and Its Treatment in Competition Policy....Pages 303-315
Perfect and Free Competition as Guiding Principles in Competition Policy Towards Large Enterprises....Pages 316-323
Industrial Structure and Price/Wage Controls: The U.S. Experience....Pages 324-349
Back Matter....Pages 350-353
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