Industry Structure

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Name

Industry Structure

Description

The comeptition and concentration of the industry will affect the creation of software

Enablers

  • Concentration

Industrial concentration occurs when a small number of companies sell a large percentage of an industry's product. The number firms creating software would drive the competition in the software industry. This is important factor since this can drive the prices of the product in industry.

  • Company Size

Presence of one large company can lead to monopoly. A monopoly is an enterprise that is the only seller of a good or service. In the absence of government intervention, a monopoly is free to set any price it chooses and will usually set the price that yields the largest possible profit. Just being a monopoly need not make an enterprise more profitable than other enterprises that face competition Similarly if there are


  • Dergulation and Investment

The foriegn direct investment depending upon the type of investment and industry of investment will effect the economy of the country.

  • International trade

Each economy depend upon the trade balance created by import and export.

  • Education level

The education level drives the industrial and economic growth of the country.

  • Globalization

Globalization effect on the following aspects of economy viz., flow of capital, goods, services and people, demand and supply elasticity.

Inhibitors

All the forces acting as enablers for economy can act as disablers too, under certain condition. For example

  • Technology Industry

A fall of industry can inhibit the growth of industry.

Paradigms

Nil

Experts

Timing

The forces affecting economy continuously change.

Web Resources

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/IndustrialConcentration.html