Buyer Power Invitational Symposium

Welcome

Gregory Gundlach, University of North Florida and AAI Senior Fellow

Albert Foer, President, AAI

Defining Buyer Power
Zhiqi Chen, Professor, Department of Economics, Carleton University and Co-Editor, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy

The Economics of Buyer Power
Robert Taylor, Professor, Department of Economics, Auburn University

The Equivalence of Horizontal and Vertical Competition
Robert Steiner, Economist, AAI Senior Fellow

Buyer Power in the U.K. Groceries Market
Paul W. Dobson, Chair of Competition Economics, The Business School, Loughborough University, U.K.

A Marketing Perspective on Buyer Power
John R. Nevin, Grainger Wisconsin Distinguished Professor and Executive Director, Grainger Center for Supply Chain Management and Executive Director, Center for Brand and Product Management, University of Wisconsin

Buyer Power Implications of the Emerging Service Dominant Logic in Marketing
Robert Lusch, Department Head and Lisle & Roslyn Payne Professor of Marketing and Kelli Gutierrez, Doctoral Candidate, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona

Luncheon

Introduction
Robert Skitol, Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP, and AAI Director

Buyer Power in the Evolving Global Supply Chain
Barry C. Lynn, New America Foundation; Author of End of the Line

Buyer Power Discrimination
Peter Carstensen, Professor, University of Wisconsin Law School and AAI Advisory Board

Buyer Power in Tyson v. Pickett
Robert Taylor, Professor, Department of Economics, Auburn University

What Happened in the Weyerhauser Case
Michael Haglund, Haglund Kelley Horngren Jones & Wilder, and Counsel to Ross-Simmons

The Implications of Weyerhaeuser
John Kirkwood, Professor, University of Seattle Law School

Facilitated Discussion