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CONCENTRATION HORIZONTALE [2 records]

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Record 1 2016-08-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Production Management
  • Corporate Economics
DEF

A business combination of companies with similar functions in production or sale of comparable products.

OBS

A "horizontal business combination" involves economic units whose products are similar. A "vertical business combination" involves economic units where the output from one can be used as input for the other.

OBS

"Combination" is understood here in the specific meaning of amalgamation of firms.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion de la production
  • Économie de l'entreprise
DEF

Regroupement d’entreprises ou d’unités de production qui se situent à un stade comparable de l’activité de production.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Gestión de la producción
  • Economía empresarial
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Record 2 2008-06-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
CONT

As part of the concentration plans, two types of integration or concentration - vertical and horizontal - were identified. Vertical economic integration refers to the type of operations that bring together companies active in markets with a supplier-buyer relationship and horizontal economic concentration occurs when companies involved in the operation participate in the same market.

OBS

Terminology related to the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiating process.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Coopération et développement économiques
CONT

Pour assurer le fonctionnement de la concurrence, les gouvernements ont institué des autorités de surveillance qui combattent la formation de monopoles et d'oligopoles. On distingue concentration horizontale (entre entreprises situées au même niveau de production) et concentration verticale (ou plutôt intégration verticale).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cooperación y desarrollo económicos
CONT

Dentro de los esquemas de agrupación se identificaron la presencia de dos tipos de integraciones o concentraciones económicas: la vertical y la horizontal. La integración vertical, se refiere al tipo de operación que involucra empresas que operan en mercados que guardan relación de proveedor-demandante, [. . .]; y, la concentración horizontal, es decir, cuando las empresas objeto de la operación participan en el mismo mercado.

OBS

Terminología relacionada con el proceso de negociación del Área de Libre Comercio de las Américas (ALCA).

Key term(s)
  • concentraciones horizontales
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