The New Industrial Organization: Market Forces and Strategic Behavior

Abstract

This timely book surveys and illuminates the recent literature on industrial organization by contrasting the analyses based on the idea of adaptation of industry to environmental conditions and those that focus on the dimension and manipulation of environment. Among the topics dealt with are the sociobiology of economic organizations and such allied issues as evolutionary economics, natural selection, and adaptation; game-theoretic models of strategic behavior; and the social, political, and legal implications of industrial policy.