Research Paper on:
Tablet PC Market

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growth period, yet to reach maturity, there is a large amount of competition in the industry, with many competitors having similar products on the market. Toshiba is a well known  name and the way it has marketed itself has taken into account the structure of the competitive environment which may be seen as monopolistic competition. There are generally seen as  four stages of market structure, monopoly, oligopoly, monopolistic competition and pure competition, although in reality these are simple stages along a sliding scale. At on end there is a  monopoly, this is where there is only one company that controls the market, in an oligopoly there are is the control of the market by only a few competitors, it  is possible that many firms may exist, but there will be a high level of concentration of the market, meaning that the smaller companies have little or no influence over  the market. A simple consideration of the market in which Toshiba Table PCs are operating there are many companies competing, this means the market structure is either pure of monopolistic  competition. By looking at each we can justify the monopolistic competition assessment. Pure competition is often seen as the best state of  an industry for the consumer as it often results in the lowest prices. It is also worth remembering that this is a model as pure competition is unlikely due to  the way in which it operates. In a situation of pure competition the only determining feature in the setting of price and supply will be the basic model of supply  and demand (Thompson, 2005).The products or service will usually be directly comparable so like can be compared with like, and there will be no barrier to entry or exit as