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Hollywood has seen this movie before.
US industries have traditionally consolidated into 3 to 5 main players. When it comes to streaming, Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney are the top trio.
With news of a proposed merger between Seven West and Southern Cross, media laws are back in the spotlight, and so too are the glaring holes in the regulations.
Pro wrestling’s failed unionization effort – and Hogan’s alleged role in undermining that campaign – is part of a broader story about the erosion of labor’s power since the 1980s.
Corporate leaders see their decisions as purely rational, but emotions, especially those tied to masculinity, may play a bigger role than they admit.
Turning two big supermarket companies into one even larger one could have harmed consumers and workers, the government said during its successful litigation.
New Zealanders have less choice over their grocery shop than consumers in most developed countries. Breaking up the existing supermarket conglomerates would be a next logical step.
On one hand, the government has just waved through one of the biggest banking mergers of the last 20 years. On the other, they’ve been waving the big stick at Australia’s supermarket oligopoly.
The Emerson review could have recommended binding arbitration and giving courts the power to force supermarket chains to divest stores, but what it has recommended will put the big chains on notice.
The government’s proposed merger reforms put the experts in charge. They will allow the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to be the decision-maker, not the courts.
All proposed mergers above a yet-to-be-determined threshold will have to be reported to the ACCC. It’ll have to give a yes or no within 30 days.
US courts have had the power to break up badly behaving corporations for more than a century. There’s a bill before the Australian Senate that would give our courts the same power.
Turning two big supermarket companies into one even larger one could harm consumers and workers, the government says.
Each of these tricks is old, but each has been supercharged by the use of information technology.
New research finds Australian industries are becoming concentrated with greater power to charge high prices. Unlike US firms, Australian firms are not required to report merger plans to authorities.
A new book, Unscripted, tells the incredible story of Sumner Redstone, the other model for Succession’s Logan Roy – and the epic succession journey of his daughter, Shari, now chair of ViacomCBS.
The new conditions that have been heaped onto Rogers as a result of the Rogers-Shaw merger could end up benefiting Canadian consumers and the economy at large.
The Rogers-Shaw decision is proving to be a legally significant case for Canada by setting a precedent that might make merger challenges harder in the future.
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Professor of Business Economics, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor, Purdue University
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Professor of Law, University at Buffalo
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Professor of Practice, Associate Dean, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Professor Allan Fels, Professor of Law, Economics and Business at the University of Melbourne and Monash University., The University of Melbourne
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University Lecturer in Finance, Cambridge Judge Business School
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Professor of Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Associate Professor, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of Journalism, Accountability and Democracy, American University School of Communication
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Professor of Media Studies, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Automotive Journalism, Coventry University
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Instructor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University
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Higdon Professor of Management, Florida State University
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Emeritus Professor of Accounting, University of Essex, University of Essex
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Distinguished Professor of Philosophy of Education, Stellenbosch University