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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Ira Rosenbaum |
| ISBN: | 0275956040 9780275956042 |
| OCLC Number: | 37213466 |
| Description: | viii, 274 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Dominance in the oil industry : Standard Oil from 1865 to 1911 -- Tobacco : predation and persistent market power -- Alcoa and the U.S. aluminum industry -- Dow Chemical and the magnesium industry -- Eastman Kodak in the photographic film industry : picture imperfect? -- The rise and fall of Ford and General Motors in the U.S. automobile industry : a tale twice told -- The rise and fall of IBM -- Microsoft -- Blue Cross : health insurance -- AT&T's grand design for dominance in the global information age -- Conclusion. |
| Responsibility: | edited by David I. Rosenbaum. |
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?These concise and brief case studies provide cogent summaries of the rise and fall of very big business within a market context....Althogether, this is an interesting collection of essays which suggests that dominant firms should be responsive to reasonable rules of competition which, left unenforced by the "invisible hand" of the domestic market, should be exacted by foreign competitors or promulgated by government policy and law.?-H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences Read more...
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- Market share -- United States.
- Industrial concentration -- United States.
- Big business -- United States.
- Competition -- United States.
- Success in business -- United States.
- Industriële bedrijven.
- Bedrijfsgrootte.
- Bedrijfsorganisatie.
- Marktaandeel.
- Part de marché -- États-Unis.
- Concentration industrielle -- États-Unis.
- Grandes entreprises -- États-Unis.
- Concurrence -- États-Unis.
- Succès dans les affaires -- États-Unis.
- MARKET SHARE.
- INDUSTRIAL CONCENTRATION.
- COMPETITION.
- ECONOMIC CONCENTRATION.
- UNITED STATES.
