Indeed, Porter's Five Forces model of pure competition suggest competition between existing firms, supplier power, customer power, the threat of substitutes, and the threat of new entrants (Shane, 2009, pp. 251-253). ... The advantages of strategic alliances include allowing companies to specialize in capabilities, lessen the cost of creating the business's value chain, create new competitive advantages, enable learning of new technical areas and markets, allow investigation of new technologies and markets, provide investigation of acquisition targets, increases revenue by reducing ...

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Actions that would fall into this category would be things such as prices war, which is where a company lowers a price below the cost level in order to gain market control, and contracts between suppliers or others that make it impossible for others to compete. ... They were also allowed to issue notices to companies they found using practices that were unfair orders to "cease-and-desist". ... Illegal practices that the DOJ found Microsoft to be partaking in consisted of selling to companies and require then a minimum amount of operating systems they had to purchase and they were not al...

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