Strategy and Antitrust:  A Reflection on Leadership, Competitive Advantage and Legal Limits

Author(s)	Ms. Sweta Prashar, Prof. Dr. Neelu Mehra
Country	India
Abstract	Strategy and antitrust are usually taught in different buildings. Strategy lives in business schools; antitrust lives in law schools. The first teaches how to build competitive advantage; the second teaches when competitive advantage becomes a market power that the law might have to circumscribe. This paper treats the two as a single subject. It asks what strategic leaders should take from the history of antitrust enforcement, where the two disciplines reinforce one another, where they collide, and how a thoughtful leader should navigate the space between them. The aim is not doctrinal completeness but practical wisdom. This paper examines the relationship between strategic business leadership and competition law. It explores how firms pursuing growth, innovation and market power may simultaneously attract antitrust scrutiny. The paper analyses the areas where business strategy and competition law align, as well as the tensions that arise when successful competitive practices are viewed as anti-competitive conduct. It argues that competition law awareness should form an essential part of modern strategic decision-making and concludes that sustainable competitive advantage lies in business practices that remain innovative, efficient and legally defensible.
Published In	Volume 8, Issue 3, May-June 2026
Published On	2026-05-19
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i03.78832

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