This paper studies the effectiveness of lifetime employment as a strategic commitment in a three-stage Cournot model with two identical labour-managed income-per-worker-maximizing firms. In the first stage, one labour-managed firm is allowed to offer lifetime employment. In the second stage, the...

This paper considers mixed Cournot duopoly competition with two production periods in which labour-managed and profit-maximizing firms compete against each other. The paper demonstrates that there exists a subgame perfect Nash equilibrium that coincides with the Stackelberg outcome in which the...

This paper investigates a Cournot game model with a nonlinear demand function where a profit-maximizing firm competes against a socially concerned firm. The timing of the game is as follows. In stage one, each firm non-cooperatively decides whether to offer a wage-rise contract policy (WRCP) as...

This paper examines the effectiveness of the wage-rise-contract policy as a strategic commitment in a two-stage quantity-settingmodel with two labor-managed income-per-worker-maximizing firms. The policy is a promise by the firm that it will announce acertain output level and a wage premium...

This paper examines two three-stage games with a labor-managed income-perworker- maximizing firm and a profit-maximizing firm. In the first stage, the labormanaged firm (resp. the profit-maximizing firm) decides whether to make a commitment to capacity. In the second stage, the other firm...

This paper examines the idea that if an incumbent firm deviates from short-term profit maximization behavior and deters the entry of a potential entrant at the expense of higher profit, then its own mid-/long-term profit maximization is achieved. The paper confirms the importance of the...

This paper investigates endogenous timing in a mixed duopoly consisting of a profit-maximising firm and a joint-stock firm. There are two stages and the firms simultaneously and independently announce in which stage they will offer lifetime employment as a strategic commitment. If both firms...

Im Mittelpunkt des Beitrages steht die Analyse der Wirkungszusammenhänge zwischen Unternehmensgründungen, etablierten Unternehmen und Innovationsnetzwerken. Ausgehend von konzeptionellen und theoretischen Überlegungen über die Beziehungen zwischen betrieblichen Innovationsaktivitäten und...

Für neugegründete und etablierte Unternehmen gelten im Innovationsprozeß unterschiedliche Ausgangs- bzw. Rahmenbedingungen. Vor diesem Hintergrund stellt sich die Frage, welche Implikationen dies auf das betriebliche Innovationsverhalten hat und inwieweit sich beide Unternehmensgruppen...

This paper examines the relationship between organization contextual variables and humanresource management (HRM) practices in small firms. The proposed model is based on anintegration of theoretical perspectives, including the resource-based approach, institutionaltheory, transaction cost...