Motors-Managers

• Better Competition Advocacy

Competition authorities from around the world disagree over substantive and procedural issues, such as the standard for anticompetitive unilateral conduct. But one undisputed topic is competition advocacy. Competition advocacy, as that term is commonly used, targets potentially anticompetitive governmental regulations or protections. This article recognizes that certain governmental restraints diminish competition and deserve censure. The competition agencies should continue to inform the legislative debate of a proposed governmental measure's likely anticompetitive effects. In creating or reforming their competition agencies, competition authorities from many developing countries are considering the objectives of their nation's competition policy. Advocating competition must be more th...

• St. John's Law Review
• Vol. 82 Nbr. 3, July 2008

• Eat or be eaten.

The marketing strategies of General Motors' Cadillac division and Federal Express, winners of the Baldrige quality award, illustrate the importance of business competition which influences a company's performance. A company with a leading edge is usually complacent in taking risks but the lesser ones tend to become more conservative in their business activities for fear of possible additional damages.

• Industrial Management
• Vol. 41 Nbr. 3, May 1999

• South Shore Pontiac Co., Inc., 928 (1973)

• National Labor Relations Board