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Davies, Roy – Journal of Documentation, 1987
Discussion of the online information industry emphasizes the effects of non-price competition on its structure and the firms involved. Q-analysis is applied to data on medical databases and hosts, changes over a three-year period are identified, and an optimum structure for the industry based on economic theory is considered. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Change, Competition, Databases, Industrial Structure