Business strategies and competition policy: cases of the Greek food and retail sectors
2009
Kourkounakis, E. G.
The present M.Sc. thesis explores the strategies firms apply in markets that have "enough" power (monopolistic or oligopolistic markets). Furthermore, it describes how these strategies are confronted by the competition policy authorities. Cases referring to abuse of dominant position, collusion between the firms and mergers and Acquisition are very popular in the business field and for that reason, these topics on matters related to competition policy have been in the very recent years, an area of interest for many scientists and researchers both in Europe and the Americas. The main goal of the remedies that competition policy authorities impose is the efficiency of competition among the firms and the improvement of social welfare. In this assignment, in an effort to form a "virtual bridge" between the theory and the real world, we focus on the food and retail sectors and extract some eminent cases, exhibiting the way that the Hellenic Competition Authorities faced them. The assignment consists of eight chapters. The aim of the first six chapters is to demonstrate the general utilities and meanings that firms (strategies) and competition authorities (policies) use. Chapter seven of this study focuses on cases of the food and retail sectors and Chapter eight looks into matters that concern the competition policy's future.
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