The Dynamics of Industrial Competition A North American Perspective [Hardcover]

This 1995 book provides the first comprehensive quantitative examination of the processes associated with competition.The Dynamics of Competition provides the first extensive quantitative examination of the processes associated with competition--entry and exit, mergers, growth and decline of incumbent firms. It uses a unique data base to investigate phenomena in Canada and the United States that have rarely been measured and even more rarely set side by side so as to provide a comprehensive picture of the intensity of competition and its effects on productivity, efficiency and profitability. Comparisons of North American data with those of other world regions are also provided. The book will be of interest to all social scientists who are concerned with the workings of markets--economists, political scientists, governments specialists, antitrust lawyers.The Dynamics of Competition provides the first extensive quantitative examination of the processes associated with competition--entry and exit, mergers, growth and decline of incumbent firms. It uses a unique data base to investigate phenomena in Canada and the United States that have rarely been measured and even more rarely set side by side so as to provide a comprehensive picture of the intensity of competition and its effects on productivity, efficiency and profitability. Comparisons of North American data with those of other world regions are also provided. The book will be of interest to all social scientists who are concerned with the workings of markets--economists, political scientists, governments specialists, antitrust lawyers.The Dynamics of Industrial Competition provides the first extensive quantitative examination of the processes associated with competition: entry and exit, mergers, growth and decline of incumbent firms. It uses a unique data base to investigate phenomena that have rarely been measured and even more rarely set side by side so as to provide a comprehensive picture of the intensitylCt