FRANCIS FISHWICK: personal details Born 15 July 1936. BA (Econ), University of Manchester 1957; MA (Econ), University of Manchester 1964; PhD, Cranfield University 1979 After a few months in the embryonic computer industry, worked from 1957 to 1962 as a research assistant in Lancashire County Council Planning Department, involved mainly in background analysis for industrial redevelopment. (subject of MA thesis in 1964). From 1962 to 1966 was Lecturer in Economics and Statistics at the University of Aston. From September 1966 to September 1997 was Lecturer, Senior Lecturer then Reader in Managerial Economics, Cranfield School of Management (Cranfield University). Visiting Fellow, Cranfield School of Management 2000-04. Consultant to DGIV of European Commission from 1975 to 1995, undertaking market analysis of a wide range of industries, including paper, printing and publishing, textiles, vehicle components, textile engineering, pharmaceuticals. Consultant in Economics and Statistics to the Publishers Association from 1988 to 2000. Responsible for annual Book Trade Yearbook and other statistical and economic reports. Now occasional consultant to PA and to Higher Education Funding Council (on electronic diffusion of academic books and periodicals). MAIN PUBLICATIONS
1. Competition policy and concentration Articles:
Puissance d'achat (conference paper)
Bulletin de la Concurrence, Paris (July 1997)
Definition of the Relevant Market in Community Competition Policy
Revue d'Economie Industrielle Paris, (May 1993)
Definition of Monopoly Power in the Antitrust Policies of the UK and the European Community
Antitrust Bulletin, New York, Vol XXXIV No 3, Fall 1989
Control of Mergers - a necessary role for the European Commission
European Management Journal Oxford, Vol 6 No 3, Autumn 1988
Books and Reports:
The Geographical Dimension of Competition in the European Single Market (with T Denison)
CEC, Luxembourg, 1993
Making Sense of Competition Policy
Kogan Page, 1993
Definition of the Relevant Market in Community Competition Policy
CEC, Brussels, 1986
Multinational Companies and Economic Concentration in Europe
Gower Press, Aldershot, 1982
2. Book Publishing and distribution Articles etc:
Editoria universitaria: un futuro incerto
Giornale della Libreria, Milano, November 2000
The costs facing publishers
Chapter 2 of Book Publishing in Britain, Book Seller MTI, London, 1995
Le prix du livre - le cas du Net Book Agreement (conference paper)
Recontres Européennes de la Librairie 1991 (proceedings) ADC, Paris, 1992
Les implications économiques du Net Book Agreement
Cahiers de l'économie du livre Paris, No 2 1989
Books and Reports:
Effects of the Abandonment of the Net Book Agreement (with S Fitzsimons)
Book Trust, May 1998
Economic implications of different models of publishing scholarly electronic journals (with L Edwards & J Blagden)
Cranfield University Press, January 1998
The Net Book Agreement
Submission to National Heritage Committee, HC paper 383, HMSO, London, May 1995
The Economic Implications of the Net Book Agreement
Publishers Association/ Booksellers Association, London, 1989
Book Prices in Australia and North America
CEC, Brussels, 1985
Book Publishing and Distribution (with D Preston)
CEC, Brussels, 1982
3. Other Managerial involvement and perceptions of the strategy process (with N Collier & SW Floyd)
Long Range Planning, London, Vol 37 , 2004
Editor for Economics Section of International Encyclopedia of Business and Management, Thomson Business Press, 1996 and author of chapter entitles NeoClassical Economics, reprinted in the Concise Edition in 1997 and reproduced with minor updates in The Handbook of Economics (ed W Lazonick), Thomson,2001. Earlier in career (late 1960s and early 1970s) author of several papers on transport economics, and on working hours in construction and manufacturing industries.
