"Vertical Integration"... Little Applicability in Canada

Vertical integration in the teaching of final year medical students

Dear Editor, The traditional approach to medical educationhas been dichotomous, with a lack ofintegration between basic sciences and clinicalmedicine (1). Recent reforms have called forindividualizing the learning process, integratingknowledge with practice, and cultivating a spiritof lifelong learning (2). Vertical integrationbreaks the traditional division between clinicaland pre-clinical sci...

Vertical Integration in Media Industries

In recent years convergence in information industries has often taken the form of vertical agreement between different stage of the value chain and with content owners and distribution channels in a prominent position, suggesting an increasing degree of vertical integration. But when considering indicators at firm level, as the value added to revenues ratio, emerges often a reduction in vertica...

Vertical Integration in Commercial Fisheries

Vertical integration has received much attention in the last 25 years and there are wellknown theories that explain this behavior. However, the one common thread that runs through virtually all of this research is the assumption of private property rights. Very little attention has been paid to how firms behave when the property rights structure under which they operate changes. The commercial ...

Asymmetric Vertical Integration

We examine vertical backward integration in a reducedform model of successive oligopolies. Our key findings are: (i) There may be asymmetric equilibria where some firms integrate and others remain separated, even if firms are symmetric initially; (ii) Efficient firms are more likely to integrate vertically. As a result, integrated firms also tend to have a large market share. The driving force ...

Is Vertical Integration Anticompetitive?