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Mergers, investment decisions and internal organisation
Banal-Estañol, Albert; Macho-Stadler, Inés; … - 2003
We analyse the effects of investment decisions and firms internal organisation on the efficiency and stability of horizontal mergers. In our framework economies of scale are endogenous and there might be internal conflict within merged firms. We show that often stable mergers do not lead to more...
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Allocating cost reducing investments over competing divisions
Tesoriere, Antonio (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003470081
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The make-or-buy choice in a mixed oligopoly : a theoretical investigation
Cellini, Roberto; Lambertini, Luca - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003911326
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Divisionalization in contests
Huck, Steffen; Konrad, Kai A.; Müller, Wieland - 2000
To be represented by more than one contestant in a contest has advantages and disadvantages. This paper determines the conditions under which it is favorable to send several agents into the contest. -- contests ; Divisionalization ; delegation
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Power inside the firm and the market : a general equilibrium approach
Marin, Dalia; Verdier, Thierry - 2002 - First Version: December 2001, This Version: July 2002
Recent years have witnessed an enormous amount of reorganization of the corporate sector in the US and in Europe. This paper examines the role of market competition for this trend in corporate reorganization. We find that at intermediate levels of competition the CEO of the corporation decides...
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Globalization and the "new enterprise"
Marin, Dalia; Verdier, Thierry - 2002
Globalization has been identified by many experts as a new way firms organize their activities and as the emergence of human capital as the new stakeholder of the firm. This paper surveys recent work which examines the role of trade integration for these changes in corporate organization. More...
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Consistency in organization
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2008
modern compensation theory, but has not been extended to organization theory. The idea is developed by starting from … Williamson's discussion of idiosyncratic exchange. The perspective sheds new light on several topics in the theory of the firm … of incentives, or the role of routines. It implies a "perceptional" theory of the firm that is "realistic" in the sense …
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The Nefarious hierarchy : an alternative new theory of the firm
Arend, Richard J. - In: Administrative Sciences : open access journal 11 (2021) 1/21, pp. 1-18
We propose a new theory of the firm based on the premise that "the firm" characterizes a factor-integrative form of … requirements involved for such a theory, and fulfill those requirements by explaining what it is "to do bad", and why and when the …
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R&D investments under endogenous cluster formation
Dawid, Herbert; Hellmann, Tim - 2016
We study investments in R&D and the formation of R&D clusters of firms which are competitors in the market. In a three stage game, firms first decide on long-term R&D investment, then form research clusters according to the unanimity game introduced in Bloch(1995), and finally compete in...
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Imitation equilibrium
Selten, Reinhard; Ostmann, Axel - 2000
The paper presents the concept of an imitation equilibrium and explores it in the context of some simple oligopoly …
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