Rivalry is an attempt to understand facets of entrepreneurial societies by integrating the economic analysis with historical, political and psychological considerations, customarily shunned by economists. The author argues that decisions to make new business ventures, and readiness to take risks are both related to concepts of ranking hierarchies on local, national or international levels. He then constructs a theory of business enterprise and of rivalry supported by evidence on entrepreneurship, innovation, advertising, all examined with their historical, political or organisational concerns. This notion of rivalry among businessmen is used to derive guidelines for anti-trust legislation. Instead of pricing, profitability, concentration ratios and other criteria used today to infer non-competitive behaviour, he suggests using a measure of a firm's relative rate of innovation to infer it. By extending the notion of rivalry to the political sphere, national and international, guidelines are derived to evaluate the performance of state-owned enterprises and to examine policies related to free trade.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9780521385848
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95730303
Product Key Features
Book Title
Rivalry: in Business, Science, Among Nations
Author
Reuven Brenner
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Economics
Publication Year
1990
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
230mm
Item Width
153mm
Item Weight
430g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Reuven Brenner
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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