Firms' Objectives and Internal Organisation in a Global Economy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-7

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2. Existence and Uniqueness of Equilibrium in Labor-Managed Cournot Oligopoly

   • Koji Okuguchi, Ferenc Szidarovszky

   Pages 9-16

3. Wage-Rise Contract and Cournot Competition with Labor-Managed Firms

   • Kazuhiro Ohnishi

   Pages 17-31

4. Price Setting is Popular among Firms: Will It Persist in Vertical Relationships with Market Uncertainty?

   • Gianpaolo Rossini

   Pages 33-50

5. Contagious “Social Market Enterprises”: The Role of Fair Traders

   • Leonardo Becchetti, Giuseppina Gianfreda

   Pages 51-84

6. Should One Sell Domestic Firms to Foreign Ones? A Tale of Delegation, Acquisition and Collusion

   • Davide Dragone

   Pages 85-111

7. The Make-or-Buy Choice in a Mixed Oligopoly: A Theoretical Investigation

   • Roberto Cellini, Luca Lambertini

   Pages 113-132

8. Entrepreneurs’ Behaviour and Performance: An Empirical Analysis on Italian Firms

   • Filippo Oropallo, Stefania Rossetti

   Pages 133-150

9. Firms’ International Status and Heterogeneity in Performance: Evidence from Italy

   • Lorenzo Casaburi, Valeria Gattai, G. Alfredo Minerva

   Pages 151-187

10. Vertical Specialisation in Europe: Evidence from the Import Content of Exports

    • Emanuele Breda, Rita Cappariello, Roberta Zizza

    Pages 189-212

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.

• competition
• Fair Trade
• Global economy
• globalization
• industrial economics

LUCA LAMBERTINI (DPhil, Oxon) is Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna, Italy. He is on the Executive Committee of EARIE and the Technical Committee 2.4 of IFAC. His publications include papers in the Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Optimal Control Applications and Methods, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Mathematical Social Sciences and European Journal of Operational Research, inter alia.

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