Lincoln Watase, CEO and President of Yum Yum Donut Shops, lists the different ways that vertical integration helps a business maximize their profit opportunities, control the quality of the supplies, ...

Vertical integration is the degree to which a firm owns its upstream suppliers and its downstream buyers with the goal of increasing the company's power in the marketplace. There are three varieties ...

Integration is the inverse process to differentiation. Some people call it anti-differentiation. Instead of multiplying the power at the front and subtracting one from the power, we add one to the ...