Western European countries have recently witnessed legislative reforms concerning the set of rules governing the co-operative type of organizations (and, in particular, the producer co-operatives). The most innovative aspect introduced by these reforms seems the possibility for the co-operatives...

The early nineties Western European Cooperation reforms have followed a similar path of innovation. The most innovative change introduced by these reforms is the possibility for the Cooperative firms to comprehend, beside the traditional physical person members (PPlvI's), a certain number of...

The aim of the present paper is to show that the existence of a concrete outside option for firms’ executives can induce, under specific circumstances, every firm to adopt restrictive output practises. In particular, the paper characterizes the conditions for which, under Cournot oligopoly,...

The paper presents a game-theoretic model to investigate to what extent an employee privatization program of a State owned firm can be feasible under certain assumptions concerning the players' objective functions and the market structure in which the firm operates. The public managers are...