In past licensing negotiations the company has improperly pressured computer manufacturers to drop deals favoring competitors of Microsoft.
All 14 current rationales for mandating or subsidizing uncompetitive coal and nuclear plants lack technical merit or would favor competitors instead.
In those cases, many liberal scholars sympathetic to economic analysis have applauded the court for favoring competition rather than existing competitors, innovation rather than particular innovators.
The report, which came three years to the day after Mr. Riechers's predecessor, Darleen Druyun, was sentenced to prison on corruption charges, prompted accusations by several contractors that Mr. Riechers had favored a competitor.
They see unfair competitive practices, discriminatory regulation and intellectual property theft — all ostensibly condoned by the government — as part and parcel of the Chinese experience.1 Foreign businesspeople today routinely complain that in exchange for market access, they are required to transfer technology to favored Chinese competitors.
"You are left with the impression that they would use taxpayer-paid employees to favor one competitor over another," he said.
If you choose to do the posting process method, that's fine too, as long as you don't stray from that in order to favor one competitor over another.
This isn't fair competition; it's an illicit and improper rigging of the rules — a stacking of the deck — to favor one competitor over another.
Regulation benefits large companies against small competitors, because regulation requires substantial overhead, that inherently favors large competitors against small, and because it creates the opportunity for capture.
Yet he stands to make money if economic trends favor their competitors overseas.
A growing number of businesses complain that Chinese officials too often favor local competitors or don't do enough to stop intellectual property theft.
