Beverage Company:Hotter Competition in Summer

Due to the downturn in global economy, the economic growth rate in China sharply decreased in the first quarter of 2009. However, the fluctuating macro economy won't change the uptrend in food and beverage industry. The ratio between added-values of food industry and agriculture industry in China is 0.22 at present, but the ratio in developed western countries averages 1.2, meaning that there is still great potential and room in Chinese food industry. During the "11th five-year" period, the beverage industry is expected to grow at a rate of 15% or above. In this way, the production in this industry in 2010 will reach 68 million tons.     

Competition in Markets and Competition for Markets

This paper builds on a distinction that is sometimes made between competition in a market and competition for a market. Competition for a market refers to the struggle to create a new market, or to erect a new standard, and it is usually associated with the process of innovation that brings new displacing technologies to market. Competition in a market is the conventional view of competition, and concentrates on the actions of incumbents and imitative entrants in well-established markets. The paper reviews some of the issues that competition for markets raises for anti-trust policy makers, and then asks whether competition for a market is a perfect substitute for competition in a market.     

Competition and Competition Policy in a Data-Driven Economy

Intereconomics - Data has become a crucial resource to increase firms' efficiency in product design, production, distribution, marketing and virtually all parts of the value chain. From a...     

竞争情报与企业竞争

竞争情报的产生和发展是市场竞争的客观要求 ,随着我国社会主义市场经济的发展 ,我国成功地加入WTO ,市场竞争将日趋激烈 ,只有全面把握竞争环境 ,了解竞争对手的情报 ,制定科学的竞争策略 ,企业才能在竞争中取得优势 ,竞争情报在市场竞争中将发挥更重要的作用     

国际竞争已成责任竞争 访谈嘉宾：中国对外承包工程商会副会长迟长海

国际竞争已经从价格、质量竞争走向责任竞争,这个历史趋势是我们必须面对、必须认识到的。这也是我们这个行业在三十年发展中得到的体会。”中国对外承包工程商会（以下简称承包商会）迟长海副会长用这样一句话来阐释对外承包工程企业履行社会责任的重要性和紧迫性。采访当天,迟会长用了近两个小时的时间耐心地回答了我们关于企业社会责任的各种问题,     

夏日里的商机

今年的夏日有连续20多天都是近40度的高温天气，“烤”得长沙、成都、武汉、重庆等数十个城市的市民酷暑难耐。 然而，就在这样的季节里，却蕴藏着一系列令人意想不到的商机。     

在竞争中融合

分众收购聚众，对于中国广告业来说，也算是2006年开端的一件大事。消息来得很突然，以致于当有记者给我打电话，问及对此事的看法时，我对事情的来龙去脉还没有搞得太清楚。     

Summer Holiday

Q暑假到了,我想带小孩到瑞士去转转,不知道有没有一些适合小孩子的旅游项目? A今年,瑞士国家旅游局的其中一个旅游主题就是家庭旅游年。这个夏季,家长们可以和自己的孩子在瑞士游山玩水之余,共同参与各种趣味活动,比如在农场里制作奶酪、在葡萄园中修枝剪叶、亲手制作地道的瑞士巧克力等,以此加深父母和孩子之间的有效沟通。比较有     

论中部城市群竞争中的国家区域政策选择

正确认识中部崛起中城市群之间的竞争,有助于国家制定科学的区域发展政策。承接东部产业转移以及扩大区域竞争力的需要是中部各省竞相打造城市群的主要原因,但这种局面可能诱发重复建设和非城市群地区的进一步边缘化。在中部应当采取“双层多极”网络的发展战略,国家应通过多元化的政策把武汉城市群和中原城市群培育成国家级的增长极,使其成为中部崛起的“龙头”,尽快建设中部地区增长极之间以及通往沿海地带的交通和信息网络,促进东部产业向中部的转移,并积极推进中部地区的经济一体化。     

Competition in local-service sectors

Although economically very important, local-service sectors have received little attention in the extensive literature on competitive interactions. Detailed data gathering in these sectors is hard, not only because of the multitude of local players, but also because key service dimensions are hard to quantify. Using empirical entry models in the tradition of Bresnahan and Reiss [Bresnahan, T.F., and Reiss, P.C. (1990). Entry in monopoly markets. Review of Economic Studies, 57 (192), 531–553, Bresnahan, T.F., and Reiss, P.C. (1991). Entry and competition in concentrated markets. Journal of Political Economy, 99 (5), 977–1009], we infer information on these sectors' degree of competition from the observed entry decisions in different local markets.We apply the empirical entry model to the video-rental market. Additional entries of video stores are found to significantly increase the level of competition. This occurs not only when a second player enters the market, but also in markets already characterized by two or more incumbents. Unlike the predictions of many economic models, we find this increase to be larger when the entry occurs in a duopoly than in a monopoly.Several control variables included in the model offer additional insights. As such, we find evidence of cannibalization from the upstream channel (movie theatres), but not from the downstream channel (premium cable). In addition, various socio-demographic characteristics of the trading zone, such as income and household size, are found to also have a significant impact on store performance.     

Competition in Local Telecommunications

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 created a framework for competition in local telecommunications. Under its rules and under the jurisdiction of state regulatory authorities, competitive local telephone companies were to gain access to some or all parts of the incumbent’s network through known wholesale tariffs and offer retail local telephone service. As customers Competition in Local Telecommunications adopt other technologies for communications—mobile wireless service, broadband for email, messaging, and information retrieval—additional competitive pressures are put on the core voice telephone market. The substitution of usage and access from local telephony to other modes of communication is regarded as intermodal competition and is the subject of this paper. This study concerns local telecommunications competition between incumbent and competitive service providers in the United States. In addition to measuring competition from within the wireline market, we find significant intermodal competitive impacts resulting from wireless and high-speed development. We report empirical results from an econometric model that measures line loss impacts between carriers and the effects of wireless and high-speed services on the wireline market. The paper offers interpretation of the strategic and policy implications of these results.JEL Classification L120,L400,L960     

Cross-Sector Competition in Telecommunications

Cross-sector competition in the information and communications technology sectors (ICT sectors) constitutes a key strategic challenge for telecommunications companies. Due to increasing convergence, value creation is resulting in a greater degree of interaction. The diversification potential of telecommunications businesses is therefore changing with respect to associated ICT sectors, such as hardware, software and media. The article analyses cross-sector competition in the telecommunications industry on the basis of the diversification activities of ICT companies. A concentration of competitive interdependence in the ICT sectors is demonstrated using a cluster analysis of 34,142 companies. The cross-sector activities of telecommunications companies are investigated using contingency and dependency analyses, and the diversification-related competition in the telecommunications sector is also analysed. With regard to the telecommunications sector, particularly high level cross-sector competition with the media industry is identified, as well as strong diversification activities in the software sector. The results are used to derive the potentials and risks that have a significant bearing on the structure of the cross-sector competitive environment of telecommunications companies.     

“空调后竞争时代”的竞争法则

空调行业品牌高度集中，已经进入后竞争时代。奥克斯空调营销总经理郑宏伟语出惊人：品牌定位不清晰的企业要被洗掉，总成本不领先的企业要被洗掉，年产规模达不到500万台的企业要被洗掉。     

挑战的脚步声逼近了!

中国入世已近两年。本期《国际市场》分别刊登了上海市司法局局长缪晓宝撰写的文章以及中国驻世贸组织大使孙振宇致WTO上海研究中心汪尧田主任的信件，从不同角度反映中国在入世后对国际社会的经济秩序所持的认真、负责的立场。     

论欧盟竞争法与成员国竞争法的关系

欧盟范围内存在着两套竞争法律体系。一套是欧盟自身的竞争法。另一套则是各成员国国内的竞争法。两套法律相互独立,但又有着密切的联系,共同构成广义的欧盟竞争法,发挥着维护欧盟统一市场公平竞争,增强整体国际竞争力的作用。二者的关系如下:一、二者有各自的适用范围欧盟竞争法适用的对象是共同市场大范围内扭曲竞争,影响成员国间贸易,破坏共同体利益的行为。单纯发生在一国范围内影响该国竞争而未涉及到成员国整体利益的行为,由成员国国内竞争法规范,欧盟竞争法对此不予干涉。从地域范围上看,欧盟竞争法的适用范围要广得多,适用…