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2,867 wordsBusiness Economics Firms tend to have very tricky behavior in oligopolistic industries. Oligopoly is a market structure dominated by a small number of large firms, selling either identical or differentiated products, and there are significant barriers to entry into the industry. This is one of four basic market structures. The other three are perfect competition, monopoly, and monopolistic competition. Oligopoly being a general market structure category, dominates the modern economic landscape. ...
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4,350 wordsTable of Contents Introduction 1. From the Modern Corporation to Production Networks: A Paradigm Shift 2. Schumpeter's Notion of Innovation in the Giant Firm 3. Turnkey Contract Manufacturing in Electronics 4. The Drinking of Production from Innovation in the Turnkey Network 5. Conclusion Bibliography: Endnotes: Introduction Evidence from the electronics industry suggests that a new American model of industry organization is emerging in the 1990 s. American electronics firms are outsourcing an i...
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5,079 wordsJapanese Capital Structure And An Analysis Of Japanese Capital Structure And An Analysis Of Mitsubishi Corporation TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Capital structure in Japan has been noted to be more highly leveraged than comparative North American firms which brings to mind the question: how is it that Japanese firms have been able to take on such high levels of debt? The answer lies in the environment that Japanese firms have been operating in. More specifically, the levels of debt are likely t...
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Op Cit Immanuel Kant
6,514 words4. 8 Purely private enforcement: a model Richard Posner writes, I hope to challenge the assumption, largely unquestioned since Hobbes, that a state (if only a minimal, nightwatchman state) is necessary to maintain the internal and external security of society. I am not advocating anarchy. My argument is that a state is not a precondition of social order in the circumstances depicted in the Homeric epics and even there, it is just barely not. In our circumstances, we could not do without a state....
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