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Market fragmentation
About: Market fragmentation is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 581 publications have been published within this topic receiving 8729 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on one aspect that is turning into a major source of concern for scholars and policy-makers alike: the "fragmentation" of governance architectures in important policy domains.
Abstract: Most research on global governance has focused either on theoretical accounts of the overall phenomenon or on empirical studies of distinct institutions that serve to solve particular governance challenges. In this article we analyze instead “governance architectures,” defined as the overarching system of public and private institutions, principles, norms, regulations, decision-making procedures and organizations that are valid or active in a given issue area of world politics. We focus on one aspect that is turning into a major source of concern for scholars and policy-makers alike: the “fragmentation” of governance architectures in important policy domains. The article offers a typology of different degrees of fragmentation, which we describe as synergistic, cooperative, and conflictive fragmentation. We then systematically assess alternative hypotheses over the relative advantages and disadvantages of different degrees of fragmentation. We argue that moderate degrees of fragmentation may entail both significant costs and benefits, while higher degrees of fragmentation are likely to decrease the overall performance of a governance architecture. The article concludes with policy options on how high degrees of fragmentation could be reduced. Fragmentation is prevalent in particular in the current governance of climate change, which we have hence chosen as illustration for our discussion.
815 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a communication-based model of global production fragmentation and discuss the causes and consequences of such a model and its application in the textile and clothing industry.
Abstract: 1. Introduction 2. A Framework for Fragmentation 3. Fragmentation Across Cones 4. A Communication Based Model of Global Production Fragmentation 5. Offshore Sourcing and Intra-Product Specialization in Preference Areas 6. Some Causes and Consequences of Fragmentation 7. Just How Big is Global Production Sharing? 8. Globalization and Fragmentation: Evidence for the Electronics Industry in Ireland 9. Foreign Direct Investment and International Fragmentation in Production 10. Will Italy Survive Globalization? 11. International Subcontracting in the Textile and Clothing Industry 12. Joining the Global Economy: Experience and Prospects of the Transition Economies
508 citations
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TL;DR: Arndt, S. W., and Kierzkowski, H. (2001) as mentioned in this paper, Fragmentation: New production patterns in the world economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Abstract: Chapter 3 in: Arndt, S. W., & Kierzkowski, H. (2001). Fragmentation: New production patterns in the world economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
496 citations
TL;DR: This work offers a theoretical framework for understanding fragmentation and advocates for more audience-centric studies, operationalized by applying network analysis metrics to Nielsen data on television and Internet use.
Abstract: Audience fragmentation is often taken as evidence of social polarization. Yet the tools we use to study fragmentation provide limited information about how people allocate their attention across digital media. We offer a theoretical framework for understanding fragmentation and advocate for more audience-centric studies. This approach is operationalized by applying network analysis metrics to Nielsen data on television and Internet use. We find extremely high levels of audience duplication across 236 media outlets, suggesting overlapping patterns of public attention rather than isolated groups of audience loyalists.
485 citations