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Is China's dairy processing industry oligopolistic and/or oligopsonistic?

Dai, Jiawu; Wang, Xiuqing - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 6 (2014) 4, pp. 644-653

characterized by strong degree of oligopoly. The purpose of this paper is to take the dairy processing industry as an epitome of … oligopoly and oligopsony powers in China's dairy sector, and the latter is stronger. The authors then turn to measure these two … both strong oligopoly and oligopsony power, but the latter is stronger than the former. Meanwhile, with the continuous …

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The International Consumerist Movement

Straver, Will - In: European Journal of Marketing 11 (1977) 2, pp. 86-118

Examines consumerist developments in progressive Western economies. Studies present literature about consumerism, developing some propositions forming the basis for a theory of consumerism. Goes on to test the propositions, based on empirical data, to form the foundation for a framework to...

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Legal cartels and social contracts

Mixon, Franklin G. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 23 (1996) 1, pp. 37-46

A cartel is a group of oligopolistic firms that agree to act collectively as a monopolist in some industry or economic enterprise. Discusses the social contract of the Southwest Conference (a legal cartel) using some of the principles of constitutional economics. Viewed from a contractarian...

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Globalization, new production concepts and income distribution

Manders, A.J.C.; Brenner, Y.S. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 26 (1999) 4, pp. 559-569

The paper gives a brief description of the transformation on a global scale of the old international production concept of mass production towards the new global concept of lean production as an explanation for the increasing inequality in income distribution since the 1980s. The information is...

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On the incentive for price‐taking behavior

Huang, Weihong - In: Management Decision 40 (2002) 7, pp. 682-692

Price‐taking has long been mistakenly regarded as an inferior firm behavior in an imperfectly competitive market. This scenario is challenged when a “Naiver’s Paradox” is shown to exist in an oligopolic market where all firms produce the same product with the same technology (cost...

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CSR: the co-evolution of grocery multiples in the UK (2005-2010)

Khan, Nadeem; Korac Kakabadse, Nada - In: Social Responsibility Journal 10 (2014) 1, pp. 137-160

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate if CSR is balanced between firm and wider society interests. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative interpretive hermeneutic approach is used to analyse a variety of publically published secondary sources on the CSR of Tesco,...

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Information and market power in DeFi intermediation

Azar, Pablo; Casillas, Adrian; Farboodi, Maryam - 2024

The decentralized nature of blockchain markets has given rise to a complex and highly heterogeneous market structure, gaining increasing importance as traditional and decentralized (DeFi) finance become more interconnected. This paper introduces the DeFi intermediation chain and provides...

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