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Edward Mason and Joe Bain developed the structure-conduct-performance model of industrial organization, a subdiscipline of microeconomics. Eventually this model, with emphasis on structural dimensions, became the basis of industry analysis in the study of business strategy.
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Selected works: Mason, E. S.
Mason, E.S. 1937. Monopoly in law and economics. Yale Law Journal 47: 34–49.
Mason, E.S. 1938. Price inflexibility. Review of Economics and Statistics 20: 53–64.
Mason, E.S. 1939. Price and production policies of larger-scale enterprise. American Economic Review 29: 61–74.
Mason, E.S. 1949. The current status of the monopoly problem in the United States. Harvard Law Review 62: 1265–1285.
Mason, E.S. 1957. Economic concentration and the monopoly problem. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
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Bain, J. S. Jr
Bain, J. S. Jr. 1944, 1945, 1947. The economics of the pacific coast petroleum industry, 3 vols. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Bain Jr., J.S. 1956. Barriers to new competition: Their character and consequences in manufacturing industries. Cambridge, MA/London: Harvard University Press; Oxford University Press.
Bain Jr., J.S. 1959. Industrial organization. New York: Wiley.
Bain, J. S. Jr. 1966. International differences in industrial structure: Eight nations in the 1950s. New Haven, CT/London: Yale University Press.
Bain Jr., J.S. 1972. Essays on price theory and industrial organization. Boston: Little, Brown.
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Schwindt, R. (2016). Mason, Edward Sagendorph (1899–1992) and Bain, Joe Staten Jr (1912–1991). In: Augier, M., Teece, D. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94848-2_644-1
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