In all three cases the growth of internet traffic and online shopping affected the structure of the industry, not just prices.
Part of the problem, too, is the structure of the industry, in which the public sector and regulation play a large part.
Knight Ridder (nyse: KRI - news - people ) is more vulnerable to a hostile takeover than most media ventures in this age of industry consolidation because of its unique capital structure.
The structure of industry in Japan has changed as Japanese companies have moved production to Europe, America and South-East Asia.
Are the wolves of Siberia crying out to us, announcing the coming Armageddon of the gem diamond business as we know it, with a collapse of prices, and the destruction of the downstream diamond industry structure?
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Pushed by a desire for short-term feedback, the difficulty of analyzing long term success and the structure of the money management industry, investors give more credence to short term results and information, leading them to overlook real long-term value.
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In their current form, European corporate states tend to be more informal than their predecessors, drawing on mutually supporting networks of labor, industry and government leaders without the explicit structure of Mussolini's cartels or Roosevelt's code authorities.
But the structure of the industry and the way it operates have largely been dictated by a web of government rules more appropriate to the 16th century than the 21st.
The main factor in the slow rate of change probably has had to do with the structure and culture of the electric industry.
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From this perspective, regulatory bias is a natural human manifestation of the current institutional structure of financial regulation in which the financial services industry enjoys a decisive home-field advantage.
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By micro-managing the structure of the wireless industry, the commission tasked with overseeing the communications industry risks making the wrong call.
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And to understand those tradeoffs, the FCC must think hard about what the ideal market structure of the wireless industry should look like.
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And if there is an oddity about this potential debacle, it is that the Department of Health and local authorities did not look more closely at the shaky structure of the private care-home industry before facilitating its explosive and dangerous growth by channelling hundreds of millions of pounds in its direction.
While Deutsche Bank didn't disclose the terms of the share sale, industry officials said the deal's structure would likely involve a small number of big institutional money managers picking up the shares at a small discount to the stock's current trading price.
The fragmented market structure of mortgage originators in the subprime-lending industry may also have contributed.
"I see no reason why fares should increase faster under the new system than they do under the present nationalised industry structure, " Transport Secretary John MacGregor told the House of Commons in February 1993.
The present structure of the company emerged after the restructuring in the Chinese telecom industry in 2008.
Consultants are immersed in the fast changing communications industry, they know the key players, credentials and professional structure of agencies, and their culture.
"The industry as a whole is going through significant change and rethinking the structure of how they pay people, " Mr. Goldstein said.
The chairman of the Commission for Integrated Transport, David Begg, who is an influential adviser to the government, believes that many of the tensions within the industry could be eased by a move to a more rational structure.
During the debate, chairman of the Press Complaints Commission Lord Hunt of Wirral said he was "optimistic" the media industry could deliver its own regulatory structure without the need for legislation and with "comprehensive sign-up" from across the industry by the middle of 2013.
And I think if we're looking at bringing a unified structure together, giving coherence to the industry then it may be one of the things that we'll need to look at.
We understand the plight of reporters as the media industry succumbs to broken economic models and a century-old industry newsroom structure that is no longer relevant.
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His underlying thesis is that industry structure (unfortunately in communications all too often a monopoly or oligarchy) determines freedom of expression.
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