Industrial organization in the European Union
Subtitle: structure, strategy, and the competitive mechanism
By: Stephen Davies and Bruce Lyons ; with Catherine Matraves ... [et al.].
Contributors: Lyons, Bruce.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Oxford; Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Industrial organization -- European Union countries.; Manufacturing industries -- European Union countries -- Econometric models.; Competition, International.; European Union countries -- Foreign economic relations.
Description: This book fills an important gap in our knowledge of the organization of EU manufacturing industry. At the empirical level, it draws on a newly constructed micro-level database (the European market share matrix) to present the first ever comprehensive picture of the concentration, integration, multinationality, and diversification of EU industry and firms. However, its purpose is not primarily descriptive.

At the theoretical level, it develops a new way of integrating the insights of international trade, industrial organization, international business, and corporate strategy. A central thesis is that by understanding the reasons for the industrial structure we observe, much can be learnt about the underlying competitive processes that generated this structure in the context of current European integration.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-283) and index.