Vertical integration of HRD policy within companies

Vertical Integration and Competition Policy

Recently, the European Commission has decided to implement a simplified procedure in the context of vertical integration. If the combined market shares of the merging firms are less than 25 percent, upstream and downstream, the Commission will consider the merger harmless. The purpose of this study is to examine the welfare aspects of vertical integration in a simple model and investigate the a...

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...

An Investigation of Business Planning and Information Systems Planning Integration Within Chinese Companies

This paper presents findings of an empirical study that investigated the status of business planning-information systems planning (BP-ISP) integration with a sample of 33 Chinese companies. Using Teo and King’s (1997) model which describes four distinct levels of BP-ISP integration, the study examined the BP-ISP integration status in China. The study identified 15 factors that were important in...

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?