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Excerpt from Economic Issues in Standardization
Because size confers an advantage in standardization, large firms may have various strategies available that will manipulate the market to their ad vantage and to their rivals' disadvantage. For example, product preannounce ments and standard-switching can become competitive tools. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
