Tech Superstar Firms and Technocrats: How Can Dynamic Antitrust Turn the Tide?
A special issue of Laws (ISSN 2075-471X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 September 2022) | Viewed by 434
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Antitrust populism has come to the fore in the era of digital disruption. Antitrust officials have radically changed their approach to antitrust interventions with respect to digital superstar firms. These changes have taken place in the U.S. and in Europe, with the New Brandeis Movement and with an assertive approach to Ordoliberalism, respectively. Technocrats have endorsed a more populist view of antitrust, thereby closing the gap between antitrust populism and antitrust enforcement.
However, the new antitrust populism has widened the gap between technocrats and entrepreneurs. The dynamic view of market competition widely shared among entrepreneurs can clash with the more static view of market competition that the enforcement techlash embodies. Indeed, the antitrust treatment of these tech superstar firms relies on the assumption that market power harms innovation.
Can an evolutionary perspective on antitrust concerns help close the gap between the innovation capabilities of tech superstar firms and the antitrust officials? How should antitrust authorities better account for a dynamic view of competition, especially regarding tech superstar firms? This Special Issue addresses the new antitrust populism and the extent to which a more dynamic approach to antitrust can help design a better approach to tech superstar firms in an era of global competition.
In this Special Issue, original research articles are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Dynamic competition and superstar firms;
- Innovation and global competition of superstar firms;
- Scale, market power, and competing through innovation;
- Start-up innovations and ‘killer acquisitions’;
- Schumpeterian approach to competition–dynamic antitrust.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Aurelien Portuese
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- antitrust
- innovation
- competition
- populism
- regulation
- disruption
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