In this paper we develop a new view of organizations as disequilibrium systems. To introduce our ideas and some terminology we use a simple economic model which captures the interaction of a firm with its output market. We demonstrate that the decisions made by the management might cause regular...

In this paper, we study the global dynamics of a complementarity game with effort cost externalities. Following Matsuyama (2002), we assume that identical players are simultanously engaged in two identical games, where the players' efforts chosen in each of the games exhibit a strategic...

In this paper we are analyzing a mixed quantity-setting duopoly consisting of a socially concerned firm and a profit maximizing firm. The socially concerned firm considers one group of stakeholders in its objective function and maximizes its profit plus a share of consumer surplus. Both firms...

Discussion of the paper “Rivalry between Shareholder Value and Large Size in the Global Economy” by Manfred Neumann. (see also: 'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2326116' http://ssrn.com/abstract=2326116)In his paper, Manfred Neumann deals with an important question: “If the firms' owners can...

In this paper we study the conditions under which socially responsible firms can develop a first-mover advantage. We consider a price-setting duopoly market with vertically and horizontally differentiated products, where firms can engage in socially responsible activities and thereby increase...

The observability of managerial contract information in duopolies with strategic delegation has been an issue of controversial discussion. In a recent paper, Baik and Lee (2019) endogenize the decision to disclose the details of managerial contracts and show that in equilibrium, the owners of...

A robust result in the literature on strategic incentives pioneered by Fershtman and Judd (1987), Sklivas (1987), and Vickers (1985) is that under quantity competition firm owners induce their managers to make aggressive quantity choices in the product market. We revisit this result in a...

In this paper we study the nature of incentive contracts and organizational modes in a game where the firms' owners endogenously determine the order of moves at the quantity-setting stage, can choose to delegate the production decision to a manager and write appropriate incentive contracts. It...

According to the classical result on complementary monopolies, a single-product firm unambiguously prefers purchasing complementary inputs from an integrated monopolistic supplier rather than from different non-integrated monopolistic suppliers. In this note, we account for the fact that firms...