Firms' objectives and internal organisation in a global economy
Subtitle: positive and normative analysis
By: edited by Luca Lambertini
Series: Central issues in contemporary economic theory and policy; Central issues in contemporary economic theory and policy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780230229273
Description: "The interplay between firms' internal organization and market behaviour is a long standing issue in industrial economics. This book examines firms' objectives in the comparatively new perspective shaped by globalization. The positive and normative aspects of theoretical analysis are developed and richly complemented by empirical studies"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Existence and uniqueness of equilibrium in labor-managed Cournot oligopoly / Koji Okuguchi, Ferenc Szidarovszky; title: Wage-rise contract and Cournot competition with labor-managed firms / Kazuhiro Ohnishi; title: Price setting is popular among firms : will it persist in vertical relationships with market uncertainty / Gianpaolo Rossini; title: Contagious "social market enterprises" : the role of fair traders / Leonardo Becchetti, Giuseppina Gianfreda; title: Should one sell domestic firms to foreign ones? A tale of delegation, acquisition and collusion / Davide Dragone; title: The make-or-buy choice in a mixed oligopoly : a theoretical investigation / Roberto Cellini, Luca Lambertini; title: Entrepreneurs' behaviour and performance : an empirical analysis on Italian firms / Filippo Oropallo, Stefania Rossetti; title: Firms' international status and heterogeneity in performance : evidence from Italy / Lorenzo Casaburi, Valeria Gattai, G. Alfredo Minerva; title: Vertical specialisation in Europe : evidence from the import content of exports / Emanuele Breda, Rita Cappariello, Roberta Zizza.