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Diversification Is At The Heart Of Competition

Richard Langlois Oct 15, 2020

In his chapter 4, Petit lays out how this works with six of today’s large high-tech companies, adding Netflix to the usual Big Five of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.  If I understand properly, what he means by “moligopoly” is that these large firms have their hands in many different relevant markets.  Because they ... Diversification Is At The Heart Of Competition

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