Outline of industrial organization explained
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to industrial organization:
Industrial organization - describes the behavior of firms in the marketplace with regard to production, pricing, employment and other decisions. Issues underlying these decisions range from classical issues such as opportunity cost to neoclassical concepts such as factors of production.
Overview
Concepts
Production side of Industry:
Cost side of Industry:
- Cost theory
- Cost-of-production theory of value
- Long-run cost and production functions
- Economies of density
- Economies of scale
- the efficiency consequences of increasing or decreasing the level of production.
- Economies of scope
- the efficiency consequences of increasing or decreasing the number of different types of products produced, promoted, and distributed.
- Network effect
- the effect that one user of a good or service has on the value of that product to other people.
- Optimum factor allocation
- Pricing and various aspects of the pricing decision
- Profit maximization
- determining the optimum price and quantity
- the totals approach
- marginal approach of production
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