Competitive strategy analysis in the food system

Content Description. Competitive Strategy Analysis in the Food System, edited by Ronald W. Cotterill, brings together economic analyses of competition, market structure, pricing, strategic behavior, and public policy within the U.S. food system. The volume examines such topics as concentration and profitability in food manufacturing, vertical coordination, oligopoly and oligopsony, agricultural processing markets, generic advertising, branded-product strategies, grocery retail competition, supermarket pricing, international food markets, antitrust enforcement, and strategic decision making. The collection applies industrial-organization and agricultural-economics approaches to questions involving food manufacturers, processors, retailers, agricultural producers, and public policy. Contributors examine both empirical evidence and economic models of competition, making the volume particularly relevant to researchers and students in agricultural economics, food marketing, industrial organization, agribusiness, antitrust policy, and food-industry economics. Originally published by Westview Press in 1993; this hardcover Routledge/CRC Press edition carries ISBN 9780367011048 and contains 408 pages. Condition Description. Near Fine. Acquired as new academic overstock and appears unread. Pages are clean, bright, and unmarked; binding is tight. Glossy blue boards show light shelf/storage rubbing and minor wear at corners and spine ends, as shown in photographs. No writing, highlighting, remainder marks, or ownership markings observed. A very attractive, apparently unused copy.…