Case Study on Uber's rise and Taxi Industry's Struggle

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Paper Critique Review
Case Study on Uber’s rise and Taxi Industry’s Struggle
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1/17/2019

Paper Review 1
Contents
Paper Critique –Case Study.......................................................................................................2
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Main Findings............................................................................................................................2
Regulatory reactions over Uber’s rise....................................................................................2
Taxi Industry’s reactions over Uber’s rise.............................................................................3
Uber’s effect over Passenger Transportation Market (PTM).................................................3
Analytical Review......................................................................................................................4
Summary....................................................................................................................................5
References..................................................................................................................................6

Paper Review 2
Paper Critique –Case Study
Introduction
This journal is the paper review of a case study (Taschler, 2015), which is based on
the crisis in the taxi industry as well as popularity of Uber taxi services. This case study
analysis report will include introduction, main finding, analytical review and summary of the
selected case study.
In the recent era, the taxi industry is in the middle of a catastrophe which is somehow
related with the rise of Uber taxi services. Besides, the taxi industry is currently facing
increased competition by a recent type of transportation service which is known as ride-
sharing. In this context, the appearance of taxi companies like Uber, which is the top
successful ride-sharing economy, is threatening to entire taxi industry. Uber has established
in 2009, being a ride-sharing company which is operated by partaking consumers’ info with
drivers by a mobile app (Blystone, 2018). In this way, with the newly invented technology
and innovation Uber is challenging the entire global taxi industry.
Main Findings
The selected paper (Taschler, 2015), briefly discovers the regulatory reactions and the
taxi industry’s reactions to Uber as well as argues that the rise of ride-sharing taxi services
will definitely eradicate the taxi industry’s structured domination of the Ground
Transportation Market (GTM) (Blystone, 2018). However, this case study is declaring that
the modern era’s taxi industry might sustain in a liberalized GTM if they will shift their focus
towards innovation from regulation. In this way this paper’s main finding can be seen as a
composition of following major findings:
Regulatory reactions over Uber’s rise
In the context of pro-competitive innovation, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
has suggested that ride-sharing is enabling customers’ choice in the recent transportation
market. Moreover, this paper is also containing an incident of letter writing through FTC to
District of Columbia Taxicab Commission which is clearly indicating the reactions of
regulatory bodies over Uber growth (Elliott, 2015). FTC has expressed their views by