OLigopolies in general

2005: Year of the deal?

Adam Smith on Competition

Antitrust and defining industry segments

Barry Lynn on oligopolies

Being #1 or #2

Benefits of oligopolies

Beyond regulation

Big firms pretending to be small

Bigger doesn't mean better

Billion-dollar brands

Brand extension

British high street and retail oligopolies

Broken mergers

Build or buy?

Buying brands

Cartels

Categories

Category captains

Changing the rules

China buys Western brands

Chinese antitrust

Comments from a reader

Companies want...

Compensation for failed execs

Competition matrix

Concentration measures

Conflicts of interest (General Electric)

Conglomerates, rationale behind

Conglomerates, recent

Conglomerates vs. new oligopolies

Conglomerates: rise and fall

Consolidation and fear

Consumers and mergers

Convergence

Convergence (soft drinks)

Convergence (TV)

Copyrights and oligopolies

Copyrights and Mickey Mouse

Corporate headquarters location

Customer satisfaction and mergers

De-acquiring

Defining industry segments

Developing countries buy First World companies

Discards

Disintermediation

Disruption

Economists, indeterminacy, and oligopolies

Election and the spoils  more

Embracing disruption

Eminent domain

Equity firms and oligopolies

Equity firms' role

Europe retreats on antitrust

European antitrust

European mergers at record pace

Fear of getting to big

First principle

Focus

Friendly competion

Gaming industry mergers

Gin game defined

Gin rummy     more

Globalism

Globalism and outoxing the regulators

Globalism and shifting costs

Greed and mergers

Grow or die

Headquarters game

Hostile takeovers

Inertia and innovation 

Innovation  more

Innovation and tech mergers

Innovations, oligopolies, and tradeoffs

Innovators get swallowed

Intracompany trade

Japanese conglomerates

Location shopping

Latin American mergers

Local monopolies

Local versus global

"Long Tail"

Lubricating mergers

Managing shelf life

Market power

Merger compensation

Merger mania  2

Mergers always failures?

Mergers and acquistions boom -- 100 years ago

Mergers and acquistions - how big?

Mergers in a down economy

Mind space  

Monopolies

Motives for mergers

Multinationals

New feudalism

Oligonomy defined

Oligopolies and foreign policy

Oligopsonies

Only the big serve the big

Patents and oligopolies

Pension break

Perfect and imperfect oligopolies

Post-election rewards II

Price-fixing    more

Promises

Pseudo-variety  2

Redefining the landscape

Redefining the language

Rightsizing oligopolies

Rise and fall of conglomerates

Risk and oligopolies

"Saving the world" from oligopolies

Scan-based trading

Schumpeter

Seat at the table

Seat at the table, hand on the pen

Shelf life

Shelf space

Shelf space/Mind space

Signaling

Signaling example

Slotting fees   More

Slotting fees and the California supermarket strike

Squeezing the poor

Strategic alliances

"Strategic buyers" vs. equity firms

Struggle for shelf-space

Super-oligopolies

Supply-side oligopolies

Trademark rights expansion

Ulterior motives for mergers

Variety

Vertical integration

Why today's oligopolies are different

Winner-take-all

Zero-sum Game