Beyond antitrust populism: Towards robust antitrust

Portuese, Aurélien

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“…However, there has been limited academic research on how entrepreneurship is affected by this. Research would benefit from moving beyond stating that antitrust may occur with network effects (Gawer & Cusumano, 2014) to gaining interdisciplinary insights from examining research in economics (Portuese, 2020) and competition law (Shahzada Aamir et al., 2020), for example.…”

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The interaction and influence of digital and non‐digital structures, cultures and social norms on entrepreneurship

Taylor-Wesselink

Teulon

2021

Can J Adm Sci

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Entrepreneurs interact with other digital platform users to pursue opportunities and develop their businesses. However, although digital platforms are important for entrepreneurs, little empirical research exists on how entrepreneurs interact using digital platforms to meet their goals. Existing research is overwhelmingly conceptual, digital-centric, focused on high-growth entrepreneurship, and in countries in the global north. This paper addresses this gap with empirical evidence on how digital platforms are used for interacting by different types of entrepreneurs at different stages of development, in Trinidad and Tobago. It explains how online and offline structures, rules, social norms and culture interconnect to influence entrepreneurship using the theory and method of technology affordances and constraints, the entrepreneurial ecosystems concept, and a multi-qualitative method. K E Y W O R D S digital entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial ecosystem, technology affordances and constraint, Trinidad and Tobago Résumé Les entrepreneurs interagissent avec d'autres utilisateurs de plateformes numériques pour saisir des occasions et développer leurs entreprises. Cependant, malgré l'importance des plateformes numériques pour les entrepreneurs, peu de recherches empiriques portent sur la manière dont ces derniers les utilisent pour atteindre leurs objectifs. Les travaux existants sont majoritairement conceptuels, centrés sur le numérique, axés sur l'entrepreneuriat à forte croissance et réalisés dans les pays du Nord. Les auteurs de la présente étude comblent ces lacunes en apportant des preuves empiriques sur la manière dont les différents types d'entrepreneurs, à différents stades de développement, utilisent les plateformes numériques pour interagir à Trinité-et-Tobago. En s'appuyant sur la théorie et la méthode des possibilités et des contraintes technologiques, le concept d'écosystèmes entrepreneuriaux This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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The interaction and influence of digital and non‐digital structures, cultures and social norms on entrepreneurship

Taylor-Wesselink

Teulon

2021

Can J Adm Sci

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“…For example, it is on record as contributing $250,000 to Ohio Republican Party boss Marcus Hanna's fund to defeat William Jennings Bryan, the 1896 Democratic candidate for president (White 2017, p. 846). 3 It also used its influence to try to protect itself from prosecution. A good example was the pressure brought to bear on Ohio's attorney general, David K. Watson, to drop a lawsuit to revoke the company's corporate charter.…”

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“…583-85). 3 Some of the most nefarious charges were never proven. In one major scandal, for example, Standard stood accused of bribing Ohio legislators to secure a seat in the US Senate for H. B. Payne, the father of the company's treasurer.…”

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The Problem of Bigness: From Standard Oil to Google

Lamoreaux

2019

Journal of Economic Perspectives

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This article sets recent expressions of alarm about the monopoly power of technology giants such as Google and Amazon in the long history of Americans’ response to big business. I argue that we cannot understand that history unless we realize that Americans have always been concerned about the political and economic dangers of bigness, not just the threat of high prices. The problem policymakers faced after the rise of Standard Oil was how to protect society against those dangers without punishing firms that grew large because they were innovative. The antitrust regime put in place in the early twentieth century managed this balancing act by focusing on large firms’ conduct toward competitors and banning practices that were anticompetitive or exclusionary. Maintaining this balance was difficult, however, and it gave way over time—first to a preoccupation with market power during the post–World War II period, and then to a fixation on consumer welfare in the late twentieth century. Refocusing policy on large firms’ conduct would do much to address current fears about bigness without penalizing firms whose market power comes from innovation.

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Populism and the Economics of Antitrust

Portuese¹

2021

The Palgrave Handbook of Populism

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Beyond antitrust populism: Towards robust antitrust

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The interaction and influence of digital and non‐digital structures, cultures and social norms on entrepreneurship

The interaction and influence of digital and non‐digital structures, cultures and social norms on entrepreneurship

The Problem of Bigness: From Standard Oil to Google

Populism and the Economics of Antitrust

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