Industrial Organization: Competition, Strategy and Policy, 5th edition

Published by Pearson (July 13, 2017) © 2017

  • John Lipczynski London Metropolitan University
  • John O.S. Wilson School of management at the University of St. Andrews
  • John Goddard University of Wales, Bangor
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Title overview

Industrial Organisation: Competition, Strategy, Policy provides a thorough treatment of the core concepts and theories underlying the economics of industrial organization.

In this new fifth edition, the authors use an array of empirical examples and case studies to analyse the structure, behaviour and performance of firms and industries.

Table of contents

Part I: Theoretical Foundations

  1. 1 Industrial organization: an introduction
  2. 2 Production, costs, demand and profit maximization
  3. 3 The neoclassical theory of the firm
  4. 4 Managerial and behavioural theories of the firm
  5. 5 Transaction costs, agency and resource-based theories of the firm
  6. 6. Corporate governance

Part II: Structural Analysis of Industry

  1. 7 Oligopoly: non-collusive models
  2. 8 Oligopoly: collusive models
  3. 9 Game Theory
  4. 10 Concentration: measurement and trends
  5. 11 Determinants of seller concentration
  6. 12 Barriers to entry
  7. 13 Market structure, firm strategy and performance

Part III: Analysis of Firm Strategy

  1. 14 Pricing
  2. 15 Auctions
  3. 16 Product differentiation
  4. 17 Advertising
  5. 18 Research and development
  6. 19 Horizontal mergers and strategic alliances
  7. 20 Vertical integration
  8. 21 Vertical restraints
  9. 22 Network goods and services
  10. 23 Diversification

Part IV: Analysis of Public Policy

  1. 24 Competition policy

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