Competitive Analysis and Strategy

This document gives an elaborate explanation from the book of what has been covered in Case session two. the following topics are being discussed: Reasons to Buy (Bureaucracy effect and exploiting scale and learning economies); Reasons to Make (the foundation of contracts; coordination; Leakages; Transaction Costs; RSI; Holdup problem).

This document gives an elaborate explanation from the book of what has been covered in Case session one. the following topics are being discussed: Definition of Economies of Scale/Scope; Scale Economies, Invisibility, and the spreading of Fixed Costs; Special Sources of Economies of Scale and Scope; Complementariness and Strategic fit; Sources of diseconomies of scale; The learning Curve; Why do firms diversify; and Managerial reasons for diversification.