Price and production policy of the United Shoe Machinery Corporation
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It is the purpose of this thesis to present and analyze those
aspects of the organization, manufacturing and marketing activities
of the United Shoe Machinery Corporation, together with the character
and extent of its competition, which have a bearing on its
price and production polic.y. Since the activities of the United
Shoe Machinery Corporation in a very large part determine the
structure: of the shoe machinery industry, it is hoped that this
thesis will make some contribution towards an understanding of
that industry, especially as an example of the setting for the
operation of a fairly advanced form of monopoly.
The main objectives of the production policy of the United
Shoe Machinery Corporation are the manufacture and distribution
of a full line of shoe machinery and accessories, and the production
of a large stock of spare parts to replace those which are
worn out, broken, or lost in its machines leased out to shoe factories.
These objectives, as well as those of its price policy, are
aided immeasurably by the maintenance of a large research division,
which not only develops new machinery and improvements, but also
provides the means whereby the United Shoe Machinery Corporation.
can secure extensive patent protection for its existing machinery,
much of which is quite antiquated in origin. A large and competent
staff of patent attorneys are employed to work in conjunction with
the research division and the operating departments of this corporation.
Most interesting are the activities of the staff of roadmen
employed by this corporation ostensibly to repair shoe machinery in
shoe factories, but whose reports, known as OMIR's, are used as the
basis for action by higher management against competitive shoe
machines and competing shoe machinery companies. [TRUNCATED]
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Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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