vertical integration

How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World’s Last Developmental Frontier

by Joe Studwell  · 6 Dec 2025  · 393pp  · 148,223 words

It did not take long for the Mauritian economy to recover. Clothing companies responded to rising labour costs and higher import costs by investing in vertical integration – some of the larger firms began to make and dye their own fabric. The original woollen knitwear sector expanded to a point where Mauritius became

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proved a significant challenge. Textile sector employment fell from more than 80,000 in 2000 to 56,000 in 2010. None the less, the biggest, vertically integrated textile firms continued to prosper. The government made limited efforts to encourage other lines of manufacturing. Jewellery became an additional export sector in the 2000s

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-shirts and shirts were launched. By the end of the decade, the Dalais operated twenty-two factories employing more than 20,000 workers. Production was vertically integrated from the late 1970s as the family invested to make and dye its own knitted and woven fabrics. This meant more control over the production

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fell from 20 per cent of the workforce to 3 per cent and income inequality decreased markedly. However, after the establishment of a globally competitive, vertically integrated textiles sector, the government failed to nurture the development of more technologically advanced industry. The growth of luxury tourism and financial services furnished the excuse

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have shown that parts of the continent can do better than India. Mauritius is the breakout example, having ended acute unemployment in the 1980s through vertically integrated textile production. Until a civil war interrupted, Ethiopia was in train to become the first populous African state to pursue an aggressive manufacturing strategy; it

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fifty foreign firms, mostly from South Africa, Taiwan, China and Hong Kong, but they were enough to change its economy. One Taiwanese business – the only vertically integrated one – showed the impact that scale manufacturers can have on developing economies and employment. Outside the capital, Maseru, Nien Hsing Textiles opened a spinning plant

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retailing has gone from two seasons a year to up to twelve. The new dispensation requires shorter lead times, smaller production runs, efficient logistics and vertical integration such that fabric is produced close to garmenting operations. But the larger capital outlays required to make this work are not what investors would commit

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– largely immigrant – entrepreneurial class. This is reflected today in the presence of several Madagascan CMT firms. The jewel in the local textile crown is the vertically integrated Groupe Socota, which combines a cotton fabrics mill with CMT lines for shirts, trousers, jackets, dresses, children’s clothes and more. The Muslim Indian Ismail

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and non-alcoholic drinks containing traditional Ghanaian herbs, into a US$130 million a year business with factories in Accra and Kumasi. The firm is vertically integrated, with 6,000 hectares of herb and root cultivation for flavourings, plus cassava from which ethanol is manufactured, and carbon dioxide production. Following an eighteen

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firms employing 500,000 workers into crisis since the advent of global free trade in clothing in 2005. Only an elite of about a dozen vertically integrated Moroccan textile firms have weathered the storm. Soft Group is integrated from fabric production through CMT of garments and technical fabrics like biodegradable bags down

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. See Katsiaryna Svirydzenka and Martin Petri, ‘Mauritius: The Drivers of Growth – Can the Past be Extended?’, IMF Working Paper WP/14/134 (2014). 21 On vertical integration, see Jeffrey Frankel, ‘Mauritius: African Success Story’, CID Working Paper Series 2012.234 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 2012). On the knitwear sector and employment growth

The Insatiable Machine

by Trevor Jackson  · 15 Mar 2026  · 270pp  · 104,133 words

the case of Caribbean sugar, and later, in the case of Brazilian coffee or West African palm oil), it is more accurate to consider the vertically integrated, capital-intensive corporation. We have already encountered corporations, but after the 1870s, they emerged in the United States on a scale and complexity that had

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The Innovation Paradox: Developing-Country Capabilities and the Unrealized Promise of Technological Catch-Up

by Xavier Cirera and William Francis Maloney  · 14 Jun 2017  · 373pp  · 109,964 words

created—pulling in what may seem to be “non-core resources” to successfully accomplish a Job to Be Done is necessary. Today, we call this vertical integration, but back then innovators simply understood it as doing what was necessary to succeed in creating a new market. That’s effectively what Ford did

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vertical integration when suppliers are unreliable ultimately helps companies reduce cost. It is almost always a necessary step in the market-creation phase of a company. The

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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig  · 14 Jul 2019  · 2,466pp  · 668,761 words

). La logique, ou l'art de penser. Chez Charles Savreux, Paris. Arora, N. S., Russell, S. J., and Sudderth, E. (2013). NET-VISA: Network processing vertically integrated seismic analysis. Bull. Seism. Soc. Amer., 103, 709–729. Arora, S. (1998). Polynomial time approximation schemes for Euclidean traveling salesman and other geometric problems. JACM

The AI-First Company

by Ash Fontana  · 4 May 2021  · 296pp  · 66,815 words

. Companies need new methods to properly account for the cost of delivering an AI-First product. More What’s the second act? 8. Aggregating Advantages Vertical integration gets more data, revenue, and profit. Aggregating data creates new products. Strategic data management can lead to customer lock-in. Increase compatibility or create an

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product—and a whole new business. The following diagram shows the path to building AIs the lean way. The bottom rectangle indicates the degree of vertical integration to bear in mind while working with customers. Capture just enough data to train the model to test in real life, capture feedback, measure ROI

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or enter new markets: price discrimination; disruption; and aggregation. AGGREGATING ADVANTAGES This chapter walks through the five strategies at the top of the diagram above—vertical integration, positioning through standardization, data aggregation, disruptive market entry, or price discrimination based on data contribution—that generate more data to feed models, grow the DLE

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can make whole ecosystems revolve around them by setting industry standards for storing and moving data. The concepts in the diagram above—disruption, aggregation, and vertical integration—allowed new entrants to subordinate incumbents over the last few decades. Applying these concepts on top of DLEs builds a whole stack of long-term

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with government data, patents on their models, or subsidies for providing predictions that allow society to plan well and function better. VERTICAL INTEGRATION The best products in the world are made by vertically integrated businesses: Apple’s hardware to software; Amazon’s warehouses to websites; and, back in the nineteenth century, industrialist Andrew Carnegie

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’s mines to mills. Famous economists such as Ronald Coase and entrepreneurs like Michael Dell, founder of Dell Technologies, espoused the benefits of vertical integration. Providing everything a customer needs in one package allows for quality control, deep relationships, and better pricing. There is another, major benefit for AI-First

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the products on site, every day. This constant stream of fresh data keeps models up-to-date, accurate, and in tune with the real world. Vertical integration can accelerate adoption of new technologies. AI is a relatively new technology with idiosyncratic barriers to adoption: serious consequences, such as missing a medical diagnosis

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analyst; and high resource requirements, such as engineers with the technical skills necessary to train an ML system. Going to a customer with a complete, vertically integrated AI-First solution that replaces software they use already makes for an easier sales process. Indeed, there are many AI-First companies that

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. Combining scale of data, processing capabilities, and network effects to build a DLE is the way forward, and building all three may involve vertical integration. What You Do Vertical integration entails taking on and solving the business problem for a customer rather than just the technical problem—delivering not just a product but a

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complete solution; doing the whole job to be done. Here are some examples of what a vertically integrated company might provide: answer emails from customers instead of offering up suggested responses to agents tasked with responding to emails (We’ll use this example

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as a stand-alone device; and got usage data to train the models and update the product over the Internet. Alexa is a completely vertically integrated product. VERTICAL INTEGRATION FOR AI-FIRST COMPANIES The choice is whether to serve up predictions through other companies or go to the next level by serving them up

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ticket logging on top of automated response generation models. That’s just the software. Going above technology and through to the real world is where vertical integration involves allocating capital to implementation, training, and other functions. This may include hiring people to handle exceptions by manually acting on predictions or directly dealing

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, making calls, or writing emails. Finally, let’s go back to the base of the pyramid. Financing AI-First companies presents a unique opportunity for vertical integration, guaranteeing that AI works by covering the cost when it breaks. Providing this guarantee means losing money when it breaks but also profiting when it

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Building the services, integrations, teams, and technology around a vertically integrated offering can be both hard and expensive. There is more to build and more problems to solve. However, there are three major benefits: more data

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a share of the customer’s returns from automation. From a customer’s perspective the percentage of ROI lines up with the returns from automation. Vertical integration is, again, an important consideration. Price according to ROI means delivering that ROI, and that often requires running the entire system. Using the example above

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value out of the predictions and pay $5 for something that costs $1.50 to deliver—a 70 percent gross margin. Ascending the pyramid of vertical integration is a profitable move for the AI-First vendor. PRICE DISCRIMINATION Figuring out what to charge customers is a perpetual challenge, and one that revolves

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on control of the delivery mechanism—a Web interface, for instance. This is one of the many ways in which pricing and product strategy interact: vertically integrated products allow for complete control of feature delivery and thus pricing according to features. AI-FIRST DISRUPTION According to the influential business theorist Clay Christensen

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data from a database and building an intelligent system for customers to use every day. AI-First aggregation is distinct from vertical integration: aggregation is about data and gets more distribution; vertical integration is about data, services, infrastructure, interfaces, etc., and increases profit. In addition, AI-First aggregation facilitates the development of new products

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already use—is an important consideration for AI-First companies needing data from other applications in order to train underlying models. Truly novel, revolutionary, and vertically integrated products can be incompatible with existing products because the value offered is so obvious and so complete that customers are willing to adopt them, despite

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a customer’s already using an existing product. The key is making an honest assessment of the relative novelty of a product, its degree of vertical integration with respect to other products in the market, and its dependencies. Products may be evolutionary to start, such as a plug-in to a system

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to build a high-margin software business. But it might make sense to someone who ultimately wants to capture all the value created by automation. Vertical integration allows for virtual control over adoption and capturing value through ROI-based pricing, but it can be very costly to implement. There are other, lucrative

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biggest profit opportunity. Getting customer lock-in by setting industry standards, supporting an ecosystem, or building a brand can emulate some of the benefits of vertical integration, but the reality is that sometimes just being first is all it takes to win, especially if it kicks off a self-reinforcing loop. Aggregating

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puts companies in a position to become the intelligent application that subordinates incumbents. AI-First companies are aggregating, subordinating, and disrupting incumbents every day. PLAYBOOK Vertical integration gets more data, revenue, and profit. Providing the whole package for a customer positions AI-First companies to obtain feedback data, price their products based

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and improve upon your decisions. Eventually your company will build machines that help at a greater scale and speed. You can outpace your competitors through vertical integration, disruption, positioning through standardization, aggregation, and subordination. Remember, it’s not too late; we’re just over halfway through the AI-First Century. You can

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in terms of their contribution to a given prediction, or predictive power VERSIONING: keeping a copy of every form of a model, program, or dataset VERTICAL INTEGRATION: the combination in one company of multiple stages of production (or points on a value chain) normally operated by separate firms VERTICAL PRODUCT: software product

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The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty

by Benjamin H. Bratton  · 19 Feb 2016  · 903pp  · 235,753 words

-spectrum dominance. But programs for total capture are also vulnerable to their own comprehensiveness. Their interconnectedness can make them brittle.68 The Stack works by vertical integration, across scales and across technological genres. This allows it to function as a core platform for multiple economies at once and to provide universal valuation

The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times

by Giovanni Arrighi  · 15 Mar 2010  · 7,371pp  · 186,208 words

and exchange. Some authors have claimed that the crisis of “Fordist” mass production — based on systems of specialized machines, operating within the organizational domains of vertically integrated, bureaucratically managed, giant corporations — has created unique opportunities for a revival of systems of “flexible specialization” — based on small-batch craft production, carried out in

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from British hegemony has been the tendency for a significant and growing proportion of world trade to be “internalized” within, and administered by, large-scale, vertically integrated, transnational corporations. Data on international “trade,” which consists in reality of intra-firm transactions, are not readily available. But various estimates indicate that the proportion

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distinguishing feature 0F the F0urth (US) systemic cycle 0F accumulation is derived from Richard Coase’s (1937) pioneering theoretical study 0F the competitive advantages of vertically integrated business organizations, from Oliver Williamson’s (1970) expansion 0F C0ase’s analysis, and from Alfred Chandler’s historical study 0F the emergence and swift expansion

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. As Chandler (1977; 1978) has shown, the internalization within a single organizational domain 0F activities and transactions previously carried out by separate business units enabled vertically integrated, multiunit enterprises to reduce and make more calculable transaction costs — costs, that is, associated with the transfer of intermediate inputs through a long chain of

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business activities were plowed back into the creation of hierarchies of top and middle managers specialized in monitoring and regulating markets and labor processes, the vertically integrated enterprises came to enjoy decisive competitive advantages vi:-£2-2/is single-unit enterprises or less specialized multi-unit enterprises. These advantages translated in a

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to set prices low and still maintain a margin of profit. (Chandler 1977: 299) The spectacular domestic and trans-statal expansion of US multi-unit, vertically integrated business enterprises, and the organizational barriers to entry which they created, were associated with an equally spectacular growth of managerial hierarchies and bureaucratic structures. Once

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a living and a career in today’s multinationals than in the business world of nineteenth-century England. For the emergence of the joint-stock, vertically integrated, bureaucratically managed capitalist enterprise as the dominant unit of capital accumulation on a world scale has in more than one respect brought the business world

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previously noted, in the half-century following the US Civil War, US business underwent an organizational revolution that gave rise to a large number of vertically integrated, bureaucratically managed corporations, which began expanding transnationally as soon as they had completed their continent-wide integration within the United States. This development constituted a

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little movement towards the differentiation of management from ownership, towards the elongation of organizational hierarchies” (see also Chandler 1990: chs 7-9). In particular, the vertical integration of processes of production and THE LONG TWENTIETH CENTURY 291 exchange — which became the single most important feature of the US regime of accumulation — played

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integration was the rule. The rapid spread of machinofacture from spinning to weaving of the second quarter of the nineteenth century was associated with some vertical integration of these sub-processes. But after 1850 the tendency was reversed. Increasingly, spinning, weaving, finishing, and marketing became the separate and specialized domains of different

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changing structures of German and US business began to diverge radically. In both countries the centralization of capital gained momentum. In Germany opportunities to pursue vertical integration — integration, that is, of a firm’s operations with those of its suppliers and customers — were rapidly exhausted and the main thrust of the centralization

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(Landes 1966: 109-10) — integration, that is, of competing firms. In the United States, in contrast, the main thrust of the centralization of capital became vertical integration. As underscored by Chandler (1977; 1978; 1990), ineffectual, unpopular, and eventually illegal horizontal 296 THE LONG TWENTIETH CENTURY combinations were abandoned, and in branch after

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or absence of demand. Thus, effectively, it suspends the market with all its associated uncertainty” (Galbraith 1985: 31-2). Finally, the market is superseded by vertical integration. “The planning unit takes over the source of supply or the outlet; a transaction that is subject to bargaining over prices and amounts is thus

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most important branches dependent on foreign and colonial supplies and/or outlets. To delink from such supplies and outlets in favor of domestic horizontal or vertical integration, if at all possible, would have deprived British business of the main source of its profitability and the British government of the main source of

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large and dynamic market endowed with the full complement of natural resources needed to satisfy the consumers’ wants offers greater opportunities to supersede competition through vertical integration than a smaller, less dynamic, and not so well-endowed market. In fact, in some US industries success in superseding the market was a direct

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sequential sub-processes of production that linked specific primary inputs to specific final outputs generated considerable “economies of speed,” which in turn endowed the pioneering vertically integrated, multiunit enterprises with abundant and steady cash flows. As these cash flows were plowed back in the formation of specialized hierarchies of top and middle

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were erected in branch after branch of the US domestic economy. As a result, the enterprises that had pioneered the supersession of the market through vertical integration also acquired the power to control or suspend competition in the procurement of primary inputs and in the disposal of final outputs, that is, in

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was not finance capitalism as such in any of its variants, but the corporate capitalism that emerged in the United States through the formation of vertically integrated, bureaucratically managed, multi-unit business enterprises. Once these enterprises had consolidated themselves within the large, diversified, self-sufficient, dynamic, and well-protected economic space enclosed

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LONG TWENTIETH CENTURY 313 had a decisive competitive advantage in conquering markets for final outputs and sources of primary inputs through direct investment and the vertical integration of the intervening sub-processes of production and exchange. But as an increasing proportion of European and former colonial trade and production was so conquered

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as a makeweight for poor connections with the producing countries. This strategy enabled Japan to weather the oil crisis. But on this terrain the looser vertical integration of Japanese business presented greater competitive disadvantages than advantages (cf. Hill and Johns 1985: 377-8; Bunker and O’Hearn 1993). Under these circumstances, the

The Art of SEO

by Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Jessie Stricchiola and Rand Fishkin  · 7 Mar 2012

on a video in the results, and the video begins playing right there in the search results. As you can see, the vast variety of vertical integration into search results means that for many popular queries, returning the standard set of 10 links to external pages is no longer the rule. Engines

Eat People: And Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs

by Andy Kessler  · 1 Feb 2011  · 272pp  · 64,626 words

come from the strangest places. Franz had revealed the secret of how to really Scale. Getting horizontal is how a Free Radical takes those entrenched, vertically integrated giants out at the knees. Horizontal really means doing something better than anyone else and inserting yourself into a product or process by having someone

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world is made up of discrete layers of highly valued scalable intellectual property, not the complete finished product that generates returns on capital for a vertically integrated organization. It makes a big difference. Intel makes the processors (wasting transistors), Microsoft writes the operating system (wasting bits), Hewlett-Packard puts together a motherboard

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accuse them of being vertical HEY, WAIT A second, you’re thinking. Apple is a huge success with their iPhone and iPad and they’re vertically integrated: they have their own stores, their own operating system, and a closed-system architecture to capture more of their own profits. Not so fast. Apple

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to realize that the only reason their vertical integration deal worked is that mining is a no-innovation, no-excitement, no-Scale, not-much-growth kind of business. No one is writing code to

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cake. It is 100 percent clear, to me and hopefully to you, that this is the clue as to what will happen with the mostly vertically integrated media mess. Media companies are mostly vertical. Today it’s some putz on the executive floor making decisions, swayed by internal backstabbing politics, no less

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news or social networking, gaming, recipes, or whatever anyone wants that can be delivered with zero marginal costs and provides it anywhere and everywhere. No vertical integration. Think about how different this is from media today. The technology of sticking a microphone in front of someone, or turning on a camera or

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The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism

by Jeremy Rifkin  · 31 Mar 2014  · 565pp  · 151,129 words

Commons Part I The Untold History of Capitalism 2: The European Enclosures and the Birth of the Market Economy 3: The Courtship of Capitalism and Vertical Integration 4: Human Nature through a Capitalist Lens Part II The Near Zero Marginal Cost Society 5: Extreme Productivity, the Internet of Things, and Free

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in certain places and require centralized management to move them from underground to the final end users. The centralized energies, in turn, require centralized, vertically integrated forms of communication in order to manage the momentous speed-up in commercial transactions made possible by the new sources of power. The enormous capital

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communication/energy matrices meant that the new industrial and commercial enterprises embedded in and dependent on these technology platforms had to create their own giant, vertically integrated operations across the value chain. This was the only way to ensure sufficient economies of scale to guarantee a return on the investment. The

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high up-front cost of establishing vertically integrated enterprises in the First and Second Industrial Revolutions required large amounts of investment capital. Still, the investment of huge amounts of capital paid off.

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, significantly reducing their marginal costs and the price of their goods and services sold in the market. But the irony is that the same vertical integration allowed a few market leaders to emerge in each industry and monopolize their respective fields, often preventing startup companies from introducing even newer technologies to

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Third Industrial Revolution, with its open architecture and distributed features, allows social enterprises on the Collaborative Commons to break the monopoly hold of giant, vertically integrated companies operating in capitalist markets by enabling peer production in laterally scaled continental and global networks at near zero marginal cost. To begin with, the

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power to control and manage their businesses. The high capital cost of establishing a rail infrastructure made necessary a business model that could organize around vertical integration, bringing upstream suppliers and downstream customers together under one roof. The major railroads bought mining properties to secure a guaranteed supply of coal for

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of steel to make its rails. The Canadian Pacific Railroad built and managed hotels near its rail stations to accommodate its passengers.16 Managing large, vertically integrated enterprises, in turn, was most efficiently carried out by centralized, top-down command and control mechanisms. The railroad companies were the first to understand

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statistical flows to control and evaluate the work of many managers.17 Weber and other thinkers took it for granted that a mature capitalism required vertically integrated companies to create economies of scale and highly rationalized corporate bureaucracies—with centralized management and top-down command and control mechanisms—to organize commercial

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simply incapable of accommodating the new commercial practices. The solution was to bring production and distribution all together, in house, under centralized management. The vertically integrated business enterprise took off in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and became the dominant business model during the whole of the twentieth century

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men across the value chain, these new mega-enterprises were able to significantly reduce their transaction costs while dramatically increasing productivity. In a nutshell, vertically integrated companies introduced vast new efficiencies whose economies of scale lowered their marginal costs, enabling them to sell ever larger volumes of cheap mass-produced goods

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Tobacco, Pillsbury, H. J. Heinz, Procter & Gamble, Eastman Kodak, and I. M. Singer and Company were among the hundreds of companies to adopt the vertically integrated business model to achieve efficient economies of scale. Virtually all the entrepreneurs who prospered during the takeoff stage of the First Industrial Revolution in the

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derived from it to end users can only be obtained by organizing the entire process—discovery, drilling, transporting, refining, and marketing—under the aegis of vertically integrated companies operated by highly centralized management. Discovering and bringing online new oil fields today is time consuming and costly, and, more often than not,

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opening decade of the twentieth century, Standard Oil became the first company to set up gasoline stations across the United States, creating a complex, vertically integrated business operation that combined production and distribution from the wellhead to the end user. By 1910 Rockefeller controlled most of the oil business in the

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ambition was to create a national long-distance network that could connect every telephone into a single system. He reasoned that telecommunications required the ultimate vertically integrated company to be effective—that is, a single system, centrally controlled and under one roof. In 1885, Bell created the American Telephone and Telegraph

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everywhere at every moment, coordinating the more voluminous economic activity made possible in the auto era. With the telephone, businesses could supervise new and larger vertically integrated operations with even tighter centralized control in “real time.” The efficiency and productivity gains brought on by the new communications medium were spectacular. The

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and distribution industry. Virtually all the other industries that depend on the fossil fuel/telecommunications matrix require, by necessity, huge capital expenditures to establish sufficient vertical integration and accompanying economies of scale to recoup their investments and are therefore forced to manage their own far-flung activities using highly rationalizing command-and

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, it flowed inexorably from the communication/energy matrices that were the foundation of the First and Second Industrial Revolutions. Like it or not, giant, vertically integrated corporate enterprises were the most efficient means of organizing the production and distribution of mass produced goods and services. Bringing together supply chains, production processes

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, and distribution channels in vertically integrated companies under centralized management dramatically reduced transaction costs, increased efficiencies and productivity, lowered the marginal cost of production and distribution, and, for the most part

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to only mild regulatory reforms that did little to curb the concentration of power. To some extent, the criticism was muted because these large, vertically integrated corporate enterprises succeeded in bringing ever-cheaper products and services to the market, spawned millions of jobs, and improved the standard of living of working

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society’s natural evolutionary development and believed that competition should be allowed to play out without government interference—assuring that only the most complex and vertically integrated companies would survive and flourish. Spencer’s views helped legitimize the business interests of the day. By finding a rationale in nature for companies’

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pursuing ever larger, vertically integrated enterprises, controlled by even more rationalized, centralized management, Spencer and the free-market economists who followed him successfully tempered any serious public opposition to the

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centralized. Even more important, the new economy will optimize the general welfare by way of laterally integrated networks on the Collaborative Commons, rather than vertically integrated businesses in the capitalist market. The effect of all this is that the corporate monopolies of the twentieth century are now coming up against a

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dramatically increases efficiencies and productivity while reducing marginal costs to near zero, enabling the production and distribution of nearly free goods and services. Although the vertically integrated monopolies that ruled over the Second Industrial Revolution of the twentieth century are struggling to hold off the assault, their efforts are proving futile.

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brought on by electrical power tools on the factory floor without an electricity grid. Nor could businesses reap the efficiencies and productivity gains of large, vertically integrated operations without the telegraph and, later, the telephone providing them with instant communication, both upstream to suppliers and downstream to distributors, as well as

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the electricity grid, telecommunications networks, and cars and trucks running on a national road system were all powered by fossil fuel energy, which required a vertically integrated energy infrastructure to move the resource from the wellhead to the refineries and gasoline stations. This is what President Barack Obama was trying to get

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deliver goods in the coming era. Recall that the communication/energy matrices of the First and Second Industrial Revolutions were extremely capital intensive and required vertical integration to achieve economies of scale and centralized management to ensure profit margins and secure sufficient returns on investment. Manufacturing facilities have even supersized over

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a fraction of the cost. Seventh, plugging into an IoT infrastructure at the local level gives the small infofacturers one final, critical advantage over the vertically integrated, centralized enterprises of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: they can power their vehicles with renewable energy whose marginal cost is nearly free, significantly reducing

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pursuit and a powerful expression of peer-to-peer lateral power at work. The democratization of production fundamentally disrupts the centralized manufacturing practices of the vertically integrated Second Industrial Revolution. The radical implications of installing Fab Labs all over the world so that everyone can be a prosumer has not gone

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resulting in additional logistical costs. And even though Ford was able to use the new efficiencies made possible by the Second Industrial Revolution to create vertically integrated operations and achieve sufficient economies of scale to provide a relatively cheap vehicle that put millions of people behind the wheel, the marginal cost

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of industrialized production, Gandhi demurred, suggesting that “there is a tremendous fallacy behind Henry Ford’s reasoning.” Gandhi believed that mass production, with its vertically integrated enterprises and inherent tendencies to centralize economic power and monopolize markets, would have dire consequences for humanity.46 He warned that such a situation would

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defend his philosophy of local economic power in an industrial era whose communication/energy matrix favored centralized, top-down management of commercial practices and the vertical integration of economic activity. That left him in the untenable position of championing traditional crafts in local subsistence communities that had kept the masses of

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As described in chapter 3, the communication/energy matrices of the First and Second Industrial Revolutions required huge influxes of financial capital and relied on vertically integrated enterprises and centralized command and control mechanisms to achieve economies of scale, all of which put the economy in the lap of capitalism, aided by

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every other commercial enterprise that relies on these fuels for its materials, power generation, and logistics will be forced by necessity to continue using a vertically integrated business model and centralized management to achieve its own economies of scale and stay alive. Can the advocates of a networked infrastructure Commons imagine how

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centralized communication and energy matrices tipped the game in favor of private companies that could amass sufficient sums in the stock and bond markets. The vertical integration and scaling of manufacturing and services ensured that private enterprises, operating in capitalist markets, would dominate the previous two industrial eras. Cooperatives were a

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Others use a combination of public transport, private cars, bicycling, and walking. Most shipments of commercial goods across roads are done by private carriers. Large vertically integrated Second Industrial Revolution companies rely on their own internal car and truck fleets or outsource to other private carriers to store and move materials, components

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Second Industrial Revolutions relied on a communication/energy matrix and logistics grid that required huge sums of capital, and therefore had to be organized in vertically integrated enterprises under centralized command and control to achieve economies of scale. The capitalist system and the market mechanism proved to be the best institutional

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buyers disappeared, replaced by providers and users. Ownership of CDs gave way to access to music libraries online. Markets succumbed to networked Commons. A vertically integrated industry controlled by a handful of giant recording companies buckled under the collective weight of millions of buyers turned peer-to-peer collaborators. Could the

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sharing of risk between consumers and farmers creates a bond of mutual trust and fosters social capital. Moreover, eliminating all the middlemen in the conventional, vertically integrated agribusiness operations dramatically reduces the costs of the produce for the end user. Many CSA operations use ecological agricultural practices and organic farming techniques, eliminating

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efficient mechanism at the time to organize an economy whose energy and communication matrices, and accompanying industries, required large concentrations of financial capital to support vertically integrated enterprises and accompanying economies of scale. So, while I celebrate, with qualifications, the entrepreneurial spirit that drove my father and so many others, I

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261 Calvin, John, 59 capitalism the birth of, 39–41 and a coal-powered steam infrastructure, 41–47 coming of, 61–62 and courtship with vertical integration, 39–55 Darwin unhappy with his ideas being used to support, 63–64 differences between free markets and, 39 the eclipse of, 2–9 father

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theory of, 62–63 Utopia (More), 31 Vail, Theodore Newton, 49–50 vehicle(s). see automobile(s) Verizon, 51, 54, 148, 198 Vernadsky, Vladimir, 183 vertical integration/vertically integrated companies and centralized management of production and distribution, 46–47 and removal of costly middle men, 23, 46, 232 see also Collaborative Commons Vietor, Richard

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