Business Ethics Antitrust Law
Business Ethics Antitrust Law
Introduction
The antitrust laws aim at ensuring that all businesses in a given market play by the same rules. This is so because businesses in a free market may achieve the near-monopoly status via their own merits such as creating better production processes, offering the best quality service and decreasing costs among others. However, antitrust laws set vivid boundaries for fairness in the business by prohibiting practices that control free trading. It also restrains dominant firms from abusing their market position. The antitrust laws offer regulatory review of business mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures to ensure they do ...