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

Table of Contents

Introduction by David I. Rosenbaum The Standard Oil Trust by Leslie D. Manns Tobacco: Predation and Persistent Market Power by Walter Adams and James W. Brock Alcoa and the U.S. Aluminum Industry by Hayley Chouinard and David I. Rosenbaum Dow Chemical and the Magnesium Industry by Marvin B. Lieberman Eastman Film Industry: Picture Imperfect? by Vrinda Kadiyali The Rise and Fall of Dominant Firms in the U.S. Automobile Industry: A Tale Twice Told by Lawrence J. White The Rise and Fall of IBM by Donald E. Waldman Microsoft by Rochelle Ruffer and Donald E. Waldman Blue Cross: Health Insurance by Erwin A. Blackstone and Joseph P. Fuhr AT&T's Grand Design for Dominance in the Global Information Age by Harry M. Trebing and Maurice Estabrooks Conclusion by David I. Rosenbaum

About the Author

DAVID I. ROSENBAUM is Professor of Economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of numerous articles on industrial organization, market evolution, and strategic competition.

Reviews

?[A]n interesting collection of essays which suggest that dominant firms should be responsive to reasonable rules of competition which, left unenforced by the "invisible hand" of the domestic market, should be exacted by foreign competitors or promulgated by government policy and law.?-H-Net Reviews

?Recommended for public and academic library collections, lower-division undergraduate through graduate.?-Choice

?These concise and brief case studies provide cogent summaries of the rise and fall of very big business within a market context....Althogether, this is an interesting collection of essays which suggests that dominant firms should be responsive to reasonable rules of competition which, left unenforced by the "invisible hand" of the domestic market, should be exacted by foreign competitors or promulgated by government policy and law.?-H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences

"ÝA¨n interesting collection of essays which suggest that dominant firms should be responsive to reasonable rules of competition which, left unenforced by the "invisible hand" of the domestic market, should be exacted by foreign competitors or promulgated by government policy and law."-H-Net Reviews

"[A]n interesting collection of essays which suggest that dominant firms should be responsive to reasonable rules of competition which, left unenforced by the "invisible hand" of the domestic market, should be exacted by foreign competitors or promulgated by government policy and law."-H-Net Reviews

"Recommended for public and academic library collections, lower-division undergraduate through graduate."-Choice

"These concise and brief case studies provide cogent summaries of the rise and fall of very big business within a market context....Althogether, this is an interesting collection of essays which suggests that dominant firms should be responsive to reasonable rules of competition which, left unenforced by the "invisible hand" of the domestic market, should be exacted by foreign competitors or promulgated by government policy and law."-H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences