A global game of monopoly?

Article Abstract:

Industry consolidation and global integration do not necessarily portend monopolies; lax trade barriers enable new firms to compete. Alliances between industries with high R&D costs such as aerospace are the main monopoly threat, and should be policed by an international agency.

Analysis, Monopolies, International competition (Commerce), International competition (Economics)

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The non-global firm

Article Abstract:

Multinational firms are not global, but regional. Foreign investment in clustered in countries neighboring their own base, and if they expand into other regions they form regional clusters there. Costs have limited globalization in favor of strategic alliances.

Regionalism

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The global firm: R.I.P

Article Abstract:

Today's global companies, for years thought to be the wave of the future, may have a short reign. A speaker at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting believes that they may be replaced by strategic alliances involving mutually beneficial industry groupings.

Conferences, meetings and seminars, Strategic alliances (Business), World Economic Forum

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