Competitive solutions : the strategist's toolkit /
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| Author / Creator: | McAfee, R. Preston. |
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| Imprint: | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2002. |
| Description: | xx, 404 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6058472 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Preamble
- Contents
- What Is Strategy?
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Executive Summary--Introduction
- Chapter 2. Industry Analysis
- The Five Six Forces
- Entry
- Buyer Bargaining Power
- Supplier Bargaining Power
- Substitute Products
- Rivalry
- Complements-The Sixth Force
- Strategies for Complements
- Industry Structures
- Fragmented Industry
- Dominant Firm
- Tight Oligopoly
- Loose Oligopoly
- Executive Summary -Industry Analysis
- Chapter 3. Firm Strategies
- Value/Cost Strategies
- Quality Choice without Competition
- Games and Best Responses
- The Effects of Competition on Quality Choice
- Accommodation and Dissuasion
- Low-Cost Strategy
- Cream-Skimming
- Coherent Strategies
- The Three-Layer Model
- Stuck in the Middle
- Dealing with Competitors
- Executive Summary--Firm Strategies
- Chapter 4. Differentiation
- Competition in Differentiated Products
- Creating Synergies
- Quality Complementarities
- Networks
- Technological Races
- Patent Strategy
- Hedonic Prices
- Executive Summary--Differentiation
- Chapter 5. Product Life Cycle
- Introduction
- Growth
- Maturity
- Decline and Replacement
- Summary of the Product Life Cycle
- The Life Cycle for Durable Goods
- Executive Summary--Product Life Cycle
- Chapter 6. Cooperation
- Cooperation on a Variety of Issues
- Tacit Collusion
- Shared Interest
- Punishment
- Recovery
- Problems of Tacit Cooperation in Price
- Confessions
- Many Producers
- Differentiated Products
- Reaction Time
- Environmental Randomness
- Motivating Managers
- Efficient Allocation within a Cartel
- Unenforceable Contracts
- Risky Communication
- Small or Failing Firms
- Entry and Substitutes
- Competition in Other Dimensions
- Solutions to Tacit Cooperation Problems
- Industry Association
- Published Price Lists
- Exclusive Territories
- Preannouncing Future Price Increases
- The Capture Theory
- Incrementalism
- Multimarket Contact
- Multilevel Contact
- Unused Capacity
- Grow or Crush Small or Bankrupt Firms
- Executive Summary--Cooperation
- Chapter 7. Organizational Scope
- Make or Buy Decisions
- Tapered Integration
- The Multidivisional Firm
- Transaction Costs
- Prices or Quantities
- Net Present Value
- Project Selection and Risk Assessment
- Executive Summary--Organizational Scope
- Chapter 8. Incentives
- Agency
- Efficiency Wages
- Making Firms More Aggressive
- Agent Selection
- Managing Creative Talent
- Multitasking
- Common Agency
- Tournaments and Yardstick Competition
- Ratchet Effect
- Executive Summary--Incentives
- Chapter 9. Antitrust
- Major Laws
- Sherman Act (1890)
- Clayton Act (1914)
- FTC Act (1914)
- Exemptions and Special Treatment
- Predation, Foreclosure, and Tying
- Mergers
- DOJ Guidelines for Horizontal Mergers
- Vertical Mergers and Antitrust Enforcement
- Executive Summary--Antitrust
- Chapter 10. Elementary Statistics
- Opinion Polls
- The Precision of Statistics
- The Normal Distribution or Bell Curve
- Conditional Probabilities and Correlation
- The Predator Theory of Tornadoes
- Sample Selection Bias
- The Hot Hand
- Option Values
- Scenario Analysis
- Executive Summary--Elementary Statistics
- Chapter 11. Pricing
- Illustrative Examples
- International Pricing by the Pharmaceutical Companies
- Methyl Methacrylate
- Hand-Me-Down by Armani
- IBM LaserPrinter E
- Sony MiniDisc
- An Electric Utility's Individualized Pricing
