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Contrived Competition : Regulation and Deregulation in America / Richard H. K. Vietor.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©1994Edition: 2nd printing 1996. Reprint 2014Description: 1 online resource (439 p.) : illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9780674436800
  • 9780674436794
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- CHAPTER ONE. The Experiment with Economic Regulation -- CHAPTER TWO. American Airlines -- CHAPTER THREE. El Paso Natural Gas -- CHAPTER FOUR. AT&T -- CHAPTER FIVE. BankAmerica -- CHAPTER SIX. Regulation in Perspective -- Tables / Notes / Acknowledgments / Credits / Index -- Tables -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Credits -- Index
Summary: This book explains how four major firms--American Airlines, El Paso Natural Gas, AT&T, and Bank America--and their respective managements were challenged by the deregulation of markets starting in the late 1970s. The four stories illustrate the dynamic process of market restructuring and organizational adjustment, as well as the ways in which managers and regulators painfully learned to operate effectively as their economic and political environments shifted around them.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674436794

Frontmatter -- Contents -- CHAPTER ONE. The Experiment with Economic Regulation -- CHAPTER TWO. American Airlines -- CHAPTER THREE. El Paso Natural Gas -- CHAPTER FOUR. AT&T -- CHAPTER FIVE. BankAmerica -- CHAPTER SIX. Regulation in Perspective -- Tables / Notes / Acknowledgments / Credits / Index -- Tables -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Credits -- Index

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This book explains how four major firms--American Airlines, El Paso Natural Gas, AT&T, and Bank America--and their respective managements were challenged by the deregulation of markets starting in the late 1970s. The four stories illustrate the dynamic process of market restructuring and organizational adjustment, as well as the ways in which managers and regulators painfully learned to operate effectively as their economic and political environments shifted around them.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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