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Authors: David I. Rosenbaum
ISBN-13: 9780275956042, ISBN-10: 0275956040
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: May 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: David I. Rosenbaum

DAVID I. ROSENBAUM is Professor of Economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Book Synopsis

An exploration of how firms attain and hold market dominance and the implications for economic performance.

Booknews

Examines ten industries which have been controlled at one time by either a dominant firm or a group of firms acting as a dominant unit. Twelve chapters discuss the sources, methods of maintenance, and ramifications of dominance in order to determine whether efficiency was the source and result of dominance or whether dominance was acquired and extended through inefficient means. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

	Illustrations
1	Introduction	1
2	Dominance in the Oil Industry: Standard Oil from 1865 to 1911	11
3	Tobacco: Predation and Persistent Market Power	39
4	Alcoa and the U.S. Aluminum Industry	55
5	Dow Chemical and the Magnesium Industry	69
6	Eastman Kodak in the Photographic Film Industry: Picture Imperfect?	89
7	The Rise and Fall of Ford and General Motors in the U.S. Automobile Industry: A Tale Twice Told	109
8	The Rise and Fall of IBM	131
9	Microsoft	153
10	Blue Cross: Health Insurance	175
11	AT&T's Grand Design for Dominance in the Global Information Age	195
12	Conclusion	227
	Bibliography	257
	Index	267
	About the Editor and Contributors	273