"Imagine you are strategy scholar primarily trained as an economist. You’ve been asked to comment on the set of phenomena described in the attached article (“Drones keep flying higher, but makers’ profits sputter”). You want your comments to address the seemingly odd combination of rapid growth and low profits in this industry.
As a strategist, this setting intrigues you because this is a large and exciting new market with venture-backed new entrepreneurial firms. As an economist, you can draw on a variety of different theories – including, but not limited to: theories about the relationship between profits and industry structure; the influence of institutions on industries; general patterns of industry dynamics; value-based and game theoretic ideas about equilibrium conditions in markets where firms have different cost structures; learning-curve strategies; and strategy in markets with asymmetric information – to make sense of this phenomenon and derive insights for policy makers and managers of rival firms."
1) Describe three or more different perspectives on what may be happening, and
2) suggest several insights or implications these perspectives might offer to policy makers and managers This will be based off of what is written before the question and the article about the drone industry and what is happening in it.
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Please use citation and references where needed. word limit 400 - 700.