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Hybrid governance structures between markets and hierarchies in many industries, e.g., in energy and telecommunications, challenge antitrust and regulation policy. The paper focuses on the theoretical and methodological basis provided by the New Institutional Economics (NIE) for analyzing the...
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This paper views authority as the right to undertake decisions that impose externalities on other members of the organization. When only decision rights can be contractually assigned to one of the organization's stakeholders, the optimal assignment minimizes the resulting inefficiencies by...
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The paper discusses the role of various constituencies in the corporate governance of a corporation from the perspective of incomplete contracts. A strict shareholder value orientation in the sense of a rule that at any time firm decisions should be made strictly in the interest of the present...
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Recent thinking has emphasized the importance of consistency in a firm?s compensation policy. By starting from Williamson?s ideas about idiosyncratic exchange, this view can be supplied with some theoretical foundation. At the same time, the consistency view can be applied to a number of...
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modern compensation theory, but has not been extended to organization theory. The perspective sheds new light on several … topics in the theory of the firm, like the boundaries of the firm, the importance of fairness concerns within firms, the … attenuation of incentives, or the role of routines and incentives. It implies a perceptional theory of the firm that is realistic …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427523
In the economic literature on market competition, firms are often modeled as single decision makers and the internal … can not generally expect that the behavior of teams is equivalent to the behavior of individuals in Cournot competition … theoretical foundation for the unitary player assumption in Cournot competition. We show that this assumption is robust in …
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(Smith 1962) and recent theoretical results (Dufwenberg et al. 2008) suggest that competition forces people to behave as if …
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(Smith 1962) and recent theoretical results (Dufwenberg et al. 2008) suggest that competition forces people to behave as if …
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