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Industrial Organization: Theory and Practice

, 1966
This book is still of practical value and remains an important starting point for the study of all contributions to organizational theory since the mid-sixties.
Joan C. Woodward
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Essays on Industrial Organization

2008
The dissertation focuses on two issues that are broadly related to the urban planning of Washington, DC. The first two chapters consider the burgeoning food truck industry in Washington, DC and the third chapter considers public transit ridership and the impact of large maintenance programs that cause temporary but large decreases in service quality.
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Japan’s Industrial Organization

Japanese Economic Studies, 1978
What was the foundation of the Japanese industrial organization which supported Japan's postwar economic development? On the one hand, Japan's industrial organization positively contributed to high economic growth, but, on the other hand, it created friction between the market and the environment, which has become the cause as well as the consequence ...
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Regulation and Industrial Organization

Journal of Political Economy, 1984
This paper examines the effects on firm behavior and industry structure of industry-wide price regulation by the state. Such regulation, wherein regulators set prices with regard to an industry-wide aggregate performance measure, has been (and still is) widely used and is shown to induce inefficiencies in firm operation.
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The Industrial Organization of Health Care Markets

, 2014
The US health care sector is large and growing - health care spending in 2011 amounted to $2.7 trillion and 18% of GDP. Approximately half of health care output is allocated via markets. In this paper, we analyze the industrial organization literature on
M. Gaynor, Kate Ho, R. Town
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Competition when Consumers have Switching Costs: An Overview with Applications to Industrial Organization, Macroeconomics, and International Trade

, 1992
We survey recent work on competition in markets in which consumers have costs of switching between competing firms' products. In a market with switching costs (or "brand loyalty"), a firm's current market share is an important determinant of its future ...
P. Klemperer
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Modular production networks: a new American model of industrial organization

, 2002
This paper uses the case of contract manufacturing in the electronics industry to illustrate an emergent American model of industrial organization, the modular production network.
T. Sturgeon
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Applications to Industrial Organization

2016
This chapter helps us apply many of the concepts of previous chapters, dealing with simultaneous- and sequential-move games under complete information, to common industrial organization problems. In particular, we start with a systematic search for pure and mixed strategy equilibria in the Bertrand game of price competition between two symmetric firms,
Felix Munoz-Garcia, Daniel Toro-Gonzalez
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Contracts, Ownership, and Industrial Organization: Past and Future

, 2014
We review the formal literature in industrial organization that incorporates organizational models of the firm into the analysis of industry behavior. Although many insights have been generated, this "organizational industrial organization'' is still in ...
P. Legros, A. Newman
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The Industrial Organization of Online Education

, 2014
Online education has flexibility and cost advantages over in-class teaching and these advantages will grow with improvements in information technology.
T. Cowen, A. Tabarrok
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