In the United States, regulation prevented the railroad
and film industries from responding successfully to the de
mands of the marketplace. Both industries did attempt to
move into other industries, but were blocked by government
regulations. The prevailing belief among marketing scholars
that the rail and film companies were myopic cannot be
substantiated by historic evidence.
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