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Stakeholders' conflicts and corporate assets

An Institutional Meta-Complementarities Approach

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ID4914940
AuthorsFernando Landini (0000-0001-7523-458X, University of Parma, corresponding author), Fabio Landini (University of Parma), U Pagano (0000-0002-9917-5091, University of Siena, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume18
Issue1
Pages53-80
Publication date2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocio-Economic Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1475-1461 • E-ISSN: 1475-147X
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/ser/mwy017
OpenAlexW2795805428
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited51

In this paper, we argue that the relationship between shareholder conflicts and corporate assets can generate multiple equilibrium configurations that can be helpful to understand how corporate governance systems may change under different historical models of capitalism. These relationships can be modeled as 'meta-complementarities' existing among two different sets of institutional complementarity. The first institutional complementarity arises in realm of the conflicts among different stakeholders and generates multiple equilibria that define different systems of rights on corporate assets. The second institutional complementarity arises between corporate rights and assets. Dispersed shareholders and non-unionized workers are complementary organizational forms and generate a form of corporate governance interacting with complementary corporate assets. A similar set of institutional meta-complementarities characterizes the relation between concentrated ownership, unionized workers and corporate assets

Business · Complementarity (molecular biology · Corporate governance · Economics · Industrial organization · Shareholder · Stakeholder · Theory of the firm · Cooperative Studies and Economics · Economic Theory and Policy · Finance · Political Economy and Marxism

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