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Corporate Ethics for Turbulent Markets : Executive Response to Market Challenges
| Corporate Ethics for Turbulent Markets : Executive Response to Market Challenges |
| Autore | Mascarenhas Oswald A. J |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Emerald Publishing, 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (356 pages) |
| Collana | Corporate Ethics for Turbulent Markets |
| Soggetto topico | Business ethics & social responsibility |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Business & Management
Corporate Ethics Market Human Context Ethical Decisions Systems Thinking Moral Reasoning Critical |
| ISBN | 1-78756-191-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover -- Corporate Ethics for Turbulent Markets: Executive Response to Market Challenges -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Cases -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Corporate Ethical Response to Turbulent Markets -- Fundamental Questions of Corporate Ethics -- Doing the Right Thing Rightly -- The Core of Dharma -- The Content and Challenge of a Previous Book -- The Structure of This Book -- The Target Audience -- The Uniqueness of This Book -- Notes -- Chapter 1 The Ethics of Dignity of the Human Person -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Why Ethics of Human Personhood? -- 1.3. Philosophy of the Human Person -- Ethical Questions -- Ethical Reflections -- 1.4. The Great Humanity of Nelson Mandela -- 1.5. The Value and Function of Executive Personhood -- 1.6. What Constitutes Our Human Personhood? -- 1.6.1. Our Unique Immanence -- 1.7. Our Unique Individuality -- 1.8. Our Unique Sociality -- 1.9. Our Unique Transcendence -- 1.10. Current Controversy of Human Dignity vs Human Enhancement -- 1.11. Arguments for Human Enhancement -- 1.12. Arguments Restricting Human Enhancement -- 1.13. What is Human Nature or Dignity and Why and How Sacrosanct Is It? -- 1.14. Concluding Remarks: Executive Freedom and Transcendence -- Notes -- Chapter 2 The Ethics of Corporate Executive Virtues -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Know Yourself: The Supreme Corporate Virtue -- 2.3. Understanding Virtue: A Historical Perspective -- 2.4. The Executive Virtue of Being Good -- 2.5. The Dharma Concept of Good -- 2.6. Dharma of Buddhism and Taoism -- 2.7. The Primacy of Virtue Ethics -- 2.8. Utilitarian vs Deontological Virtue Ethics in Executive Life -- 2.9. We Need Virtue Ethics Beyond Utilitarian and Deontological Ethics -- 2.10. The Priority of the Ethics of Care -- 2.11. Virtue as the Theory of Ends.
2.12. Executive Virtue as Ethical Consideration of the Contingencies -- 2.13. Corporate Executive Virtue as Eudemonia or Happiness -- 2.14. Corporate Executive Virtue as "Human Flourishing" -- 2.15. The Nature of Happiness in the Corporate World -- 2.16. Characterizing Virtuous Morality Corporate Actions -- 2.17. Realizing Goodness in Corporate Executives -- 2.18. Benevolence and the Four Cardinal Executive Virtues -- 2.19. Cardinal Corporate Virtues in Conflict -- 2.20. Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Chapter 3 The Ethics of Corporate Trusting Relations -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. The Importance of Trusting Relationships in Business Management -- 3.3. What is Executive Trust? -- 3.4. Definitions of Trust in the Marketing Literature -- The Tata Family -- Reflections -- References -- Ethical Questions -- References -- 3.5. The Ethics of Executive Trust -- 3.6. The Economics of Trust: Low Trust Tax -- 3.7. How Does Trust Work? -- 3.8. Building Trusting Relationships -- 3.9. The Biochemistry of Human Trust -- 3.10. The Psychology of Trust -- 3.11. Building Trust in the Initial Stages -- 3.12. Inter-organizational Trust and Investments -- 3.13. Later Stages of Trust Development -- 3.14. Trust in Buyer-Seller Business Management Relationships -- 3.15. Trust and Relational Contracting in Business Management -- 3.16. Business Management Stakeholder-Executive Cooperation -- 3.17. Opportunism and Opportunistic Behavior -- 3.18. Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Chapter 4 The Ethics of Corporate Ethical and Moral Charismatic Leadership -- 4.1. The Need for Moral Leadership Today -- JRD Tata's Business Leadership -- Ethical Reflections -- References -- Ethical Questions -- 4.2. The Ethics of Executive Leadership -- 4.3. Part 1: The Theory of Ethical and Moral Leadership -- 4.3.1. Leaders, Leadership, and Followers -- 4.3.2. What is Ethical Leadership?. 4.3.3. What is Moral Leadership? -- 4.3.4. Challenges of Moral Leadership -- 4.3.5. Moral Leadership and Emotions -- 4.3.6. Moral Leadership and Charisma -- 4.3.7. Leadership as Meaning Creation and Meaning Communication -- 4.4. Part 2: The Execution of Moral Leadership -- 4.4.1. Transforming Leadership -- 4.4.2. Steward Leadership -- 4.4.3. Servant Leadership -- 4.4.4. Leadership and Empowerment -- 4.4.5. Max de Pree on Ethical Leadership -- 4.4.6. How We Can Train Moral Leaders -- 4.4.7. Covenantal Leadership -- 4.5. Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Chapter 5 The Ethics of Corporate Critical Thinking -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Why Do We Need Critical Thinking? -- 5.3. A Moral Canvas for Critical Thinking -- Ethical Questions -- References -- 5.4. Part 1: Various Approaches to Critical Thinking -- 5.4.1. Critical Thinking as Making Better Sense of the World Around Us -- 5.4.2. Critical Thinking as Reflective Thinking -- 5.4.3. Critical Thinking as Questioning and Challenging -- 5.4.4. Critical Thinking as Spiritual Intelligence -- 5.4.5. Critical Thinking as Valuing Resources Hierarchically -- 5.4.6. Critical Thinking as Building on Your Strengths -- 5.5. Part 2: Some Theories of Critical Thinking -- 5.5.1. Critical Thinking and Defensive Routines -- 5.5.2. Critical Thinking Applied to Human Resource Management -- 5.6. Critical Thinking as Identifying and Combating Biases, Prejudices, and Presumptions in Business Thinking -- 5.6.1. Legal, Ethical, and Moral Issues of GAIL (Case 5.1) -- 5.6.2. Ethical Analysis of Consequences -- 5.7. Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 6 The Ethics of Corporate Stakeholder Rights and Duties -- The Apple-FBI Confrontation Problem -- Some Defend Apple and for Valid Reasons -- Some Defend FBI and Governments and for Valid Reasons -- The Apple and FBI Debate Implications -- Concluding Thoughts -- Ethical Questions. References -- Sources -- Ethical Questions -- Ethical Challenges -- 6.1. The Ethics of Business Rights and Duties -- 6.2. Part 1: The Nature of Corporate Rights and Duties -- 6.2.1. What are Rights? -- 6.2.2. A Hohfeldian Analysis of Rights and Duties -- 6.2.3. Hohfeldian Analysis and Legal Realism -- 6.2.4. Stakeholder Hohfeldian Rights in Corporate Situations -- 6.3. Part 2: Respecting Corporate Rights and Duties -- 6.3.1. Human Solidarity as a Commitment to Human Rights -- 6.3.2. The Debate about Moral Rights -- 6.3.3. Labor Law Reform and Labor Rights and Duties in India -- 6.3.4. "Paid" Media's Violation of Rights and Duties -- 6.4. Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Chapter 7 The Ethics of Corporate Moral Reasoning, Moral Judgment, and Moral Justification -- 7.1. The Ethics of Executive Moral Reasoning and Moral Judgment -- 7.2. Part 1: General Application of Moral and Ethical Theories to Executive Decisions and Moral Dilemma -- 7.2.1. Kohlberg's Theory of Phases in Moral Reasoning -- 7.2.2. Major Normative Ethical Theories or Systems -- 7.2.2.1. Teleological Moral Reasoning -- 7.2.2.2. Deontological Moral Reasoning -- 7.2.2.3. Distributive Justice-based Moral Reasoning -- 7.2.3. Corrective Justice-based Moral Reasoning -- 7.2.4. The Theory of Equality and Corrective Justice -- 7.2.5. Virtue Ethics and Moral Reasoning -- 7.2.6. Moral Judgments and Moral Justification -- 7.2.7. The Process of Justifying Executive Moral Judgments -- 7.2.8. Rule versus Act Applications of Ethical Theories -- 7.2.9. Corporate Moral Dilemma and Executive Challenges -- 7.2.10. Moral Dilemma and Executive Decisions -- 7.2.11. Resolving Moral Corporate Executive Dilemmas -- 7.2.12. Executive Moral Conflict Management and Moral Reasoning -- 7.3. Part 2: Applying Specific Moral and Ethical Theories to Executive Decisions -- 7.3.1. Kant's Theory of Moral Obligation. 7.3.2. Conscience and Moral Obligation -- 7.3.3. The Ethical Theory of Non-malfeasance -- 7.3.4. The Principle of Double Effect -- 7.4. Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Chapter 8 The Ethics of Corporate Legal, Ethical, Moral, and Spiritual (LEMS) Responsibility -- Ethical Questions -- References -- A Brief History of Starbucks -- Industry Structure -- Ethical Questions -- References -- 8.1. The Ethics of Executive Moral Responsibility for Corporate Decisions and Outcomes -- 8.1.1. What is Responsibility? -- 8.2. Part 1: Classical Understanding and Discussion on Corporate Responsibility -- 8.2.1. Aristotle's Notion of Responsibility -- 8.2.2. Aristotle's Theory of Actions under Duress -- 8.2.3. Ignorance as a Source of Involuntary Executive Actions -- 8.2.4. What Went Wrong at Starbucks? -- 8.2.5. Aristotle on Voluntary Actions -- 8.2.6. Immanuel Kant: Responsibility as Moral Worth -- 8.2.7. Karl Marx: Responsibility as Historical Determinism -- 8.2.8. Bradley: Attributional Responsibility -- 8.3. Part 2: Contemporary Understanding of Corporate Moral Responsibility -- 8.3.1. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Responsibility as Commitment and Deputyship -- 8.3.2. Bernard Lonergan: Responsibility as Effective Freedom -- 8.3.3. Elizabeth Beardsley: Ascribing Moral Responsibility to Corporate Executives -- 8.4. Part III: A Synthesis of Classical and Contemporary Views of Executive Responsibility -- 8.4.1. Causal and Agent Responsibility -- 8.4.2. Accountability and Commitment -- 8.5. Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Epilogue Corporate Cosmic Spirituality for Today -- Introduction -- What is Corporate Spirituality? -- Corporate Ethics Is Not Enough -- On Corporate Spiritual Leadership -- Reflection-based Corporate Spirituality -- Is Interfering with Human Nature "Playing God" and Hence Morally Problematic? -- Ignatian Spirituality: Finding God in All Things. Concluding Remarks. |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996313350203316 |
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| Emerald Publishing, 2019 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Corporate Ethics for Turbulent Markets : Executive Response to Market Challenges
| Corporate Ethics for Turbulent Markets : Executive Response to Market Challenges |
| Autore | Mascarenhas Oswald A. J |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Emerald Publishing, 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (356 pages) |
| Collana | Corporate Ethics for Turbulent Markets |
| Soggetto topico | Business ethics & social responsibility |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Business & Management
Corporate Ethics Market Human Context Ethical Decisions Systems Thinking Moral Reasoning Critical |
| ISBN | 1-78756-191-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover -- Corporate Ethics for Turbulent Markets: Executive Response to Market Challenges -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Cases -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Corporate Ethical Response to Turbulent Markets -- Fundamental Questions of Corporate Ethics -- Doing the Right Thing Rightly -- The Core of Dharma -- The Content and Challenge of a Previous Book -- The Structure of This Book -- The Target Audience -- The Uniqueness of This Book -- Notes -- Chapter 1 The Ethics of Dignity of the Human Person -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Why Ethics of Human Personhood? -- 1.3. Philosophy of the Human Person -- Ethical Questions -- Ethical Reflections -- 1.4. The Great Humanity of Nelson Mandela -- 1.5. The Value and Function of Executive Personhood -- 1.6. What Constitutes Our Human Personhood? -- 1.6.1. Our Unique Immanence -- 1.7. Our Unique Individuality -- 1.8. Our Unique Sociality -- 1.9. Our Unique Transcendence -- 1.10. Current Controversy of Human Dignity vs Human Enhancement -- 1.11. Arguments for Human Enhancement -- 1.12. Arguments Restricting Human Enhancement -- 1.13. What is Human Nature or Dignity and Why and How Sacrosanct Is It? -- 1.14. Concluding Remarks: Executive Freedom and Transcendence -- Notes -- Chapter 2 The Ethics of Corporate Executive Virtues -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Know Yourself: The Supreme Corporate Virtue -- 2.3. Understanding Virtue: A Historical Perspective -- 2.4. The Executive Virtue of Being Good -- 2.5. The Dharma Concept of Good -- 2.6. Dharma of Buddhism and Taoism -- 2.7. The Primacy of Virtue Ethics -- 2.8. Utilitarian vs Deontological Virtue Ethics in Executive Life -- 2.9. We Need Virtue Ethics Beyond Utilitarian and Deontological Ethics -- 2.10. The Priority of the Ethics of Care -- 2.11. Virtue as the Theory of Ends.
2.12. Executive Virtue as Ethical Consideration of the Contingencies -- 2.13. Corporate Executive Virtue as Eudemonia or Happiness -- 2.14. Corporate Executive Virtue as "Human Flourishing" -- 2.15. The Nature of Happiness in the Corporate World -- 2.16. Characterizing Virtuous Morality Corporate Actions -- 2.17. Realizing Goodness in Corporate Executives -- 2.18. Benevolence and the Four Cardinal Executive Virtues -- 2.19. Cardinal Corporate Virtues in Conflict -- 2.20. Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Chapter 3 The Ethics of Corporate Trusting Relations -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. The Importance of Trusting Relationships in Business Management -- 3.3. What is Executive Trust? -- 3.4. Definitions of Trust in the Marketing Literature -- The Tata Family -- Reflections -- References -- Ethical Questions -- References -- 3.5. The Ethics of Executive Trust -- 3.6. The Economics of Trust: Low Trust Tax -- 3.7. How Does Trust Work? -- 3.8. Building Trusting Relationships -- 3.9. The Biochemistry of Human Trust -- 3.10. The Psychology of Trust -- 3.11. Building Trust in the Initial Stages -- 3.12. Inter-organizational Trust and Investments -- 3.13. Later Stages of Trust Development -- 3.14. Trust in Buyer-Seller Business Management Relationships -- 3.15. Trust and Relational Contracting in Business Management -- 3.16. Business Management Stakeholder-Executive Cooperation -- 3.17. Opportunism and Opportunistic Behavior -- 3.18. Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Chapter 4 The Ethics of Corporate Ethical and Moral Charismatic Leadership -- 4.1. The Need for Moral Leadership Today -- JRD Tata's Business Leadership -- Ethical Reflections -- References -- Ethical Questions -- 4.2. The Ethics of Executive Leadership -- 4.3. Part 1: The Theory of Ethical and Moral Leadership -- 4.3.1. Leaders, Leadership, and Followers -- 4.3.2. What is Ethical Leadership?. 4.3.3. What is Moral Leadership? -- 4.3.4. Challenges of Moral Leadership -- 4.3.5. Moral Leadership and Emotions -- 4.3.6. Moral Leadership and Charisma -- 4.3.7. Leadership as Meaning Creation and Meaning Communication -- 4.4. Part 2: The Execution of Moral Leadership -- 4.4.1. Transforming Leadership -- 4.4.2. Steward Leadership -- 4.4.3. Servant Leadership -- 4.4.4. Leadership and Empowerment -- 4.4.5. Max de Pree on Ethical Leadership -- 4.4.6. How We Can Train Moral Leaders -- 4.4.7. Covenantal Leadership -- 4.5. Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Chapter 5 The Ethics of Corporate Critical Thinking -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Why Do We Need Critical Thinking? -- 5.3. A Moral Canvas for Critical Thinking -- Ethical Questions -- References -- 5.4. Part 1: Various Approaches to Critical Thinking -- 5.4.1. Critical Thinking as Making Better Sense of the World Around Us -- 5.4.2. Critical Thinking as Reflective Thinking -- 5.4.3. Critical Thinking as Questioning and Challenging -- 5.4.4. Critical Thinking as Spiritual Intelligence -- 5.4.5. Critical Thinking as Valuing Resources Hierarchically -- 5.4.6. Critical Thinking as Building on Your Strengths -- 5.5. Part 2: Some Theories of Critical Thinking -- 5.5.1. Critical Thinking and Defensive Routines -- 5.5.2. Critical Thinking Applied to Human Resource Management -- 5.6. Critical Thinking as Identifying and Combating Biases, Prejudices, and Presumptions in Business Thinking -- 5.6.1. Legal, Ethical, and Moral Issues of GAIL (Case 5.1) -- 5.6.2. Ethical Analysis of Consequences -- 5.7. Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 6 The Ethics of Corporate Stakeholder Rights and Duties -- The Apple-FBI Confrontation Problem -- Some Defend Apple and for Valid Reasons -- Some Defend FBI and Governments and for Valid Reasons -- The Apple and FBI Debate Implications -- Concluding Thoughts -- Ethical Questions. References -- Sources -- Ethical Questions -- Ethical Challenges -- 6.1. The Ethics of Business Rights and Duties -- 6.2. Part 1: The Nature of Corporate Rights and Duties -- 6.2.1. What are Rights? -- 6.2.2. A Hohfeldian Analysis of Rights and Duties -- 6.2.3. Hohfeldian Analysis and Legal Realism -- 6.2.4. Stakeholder Hohfeldian Rights in Corporate Situations -- 6.3. Part 2: Respecting Corporate Rights and Duties -- 6.3.1. Human Solidarity as a Commitment to Human Rights -- 6.3.2. The Debate about Moral Rights -- 6.3.3. Labor Law Reform and Labor Rights and Duties in India -- 6.3.4. "Paid" Media's Violation of Rights and Duties -- 6.4. Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Chapter 7 The Ethics of Corporate Moral Reasoning, Moral Judgment, and Moral Justification -- 7.1. The Ethics of Executive Moral Reasoning and Moral Judgment -- 7.2. Part 1: General Application of Moral and Ethical Theories to Executive Decisions and Moral Dilemma -- 7.2.1. Kohlberg's Theory of Phases in Moral Reasoning -- 7.2.2. Major Normative Ethical Theories or Systems -- 7.2.2.1. Teleological Moral Reasoning -- 7.2.2.2. Deontological Moral Reasoning -- 7.2.2.3. Distributive Justice-based Moral Reasoning -- 7.2.3. Corrective Justice-based Moral Reasoning -- 7.2.4. The Theory of Equality and Corrective Justice -- 7.2.5. Virtue Ethics and Moral Reasoning -- 7.2.6. Moral Judgments and Moral Justification -- 7.2.7. The Process of Justifying Executive Moral Judgments -- 7.2.8. Rule versus Act Applications of Ethical Theories -- 7.2.9. Corporate Moral Dilemma and Executive Challenges -- 7.2.10. Moral Dilemma and Executive Decisions -- 7.2.11. Resolving Moral Corporate Executive Dilemmas -- 7.2.12. Executive Moral Conflict Management and Moral Reasoning -- 7.3. Part 2: Applying Specific Moral and Ethical Theories to Executive Decisions -- 7.3.1. Kant's Theory of Moral Obligation. 7.3.2. Conscience and Moral Obligation -- 7.3.3. The Ethical Theory of Non-malfeasance -- 7.3.4. The Principle of Double Effect -- 7.4. Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Chapter 8 The Ethics of Corporate Legal, Ethical, Moral, and Spiritual (LEMS) Responsibility -- Ethical Questions -- References -- A Brief History of Starbucks -- Industry Structure -- Ethical Questions -- References -- 8.1. The Ethics of Executive Moral Responsibility for Corporate Decisions and Outcomes -- 8.1.1. What is Responsibility? -- 8.2. Part 1: Classical Understanding and Discussion on Corporate Responsibility -- 8.2.1. Aristotle's Notion of Responsibility -- 8.2.2. Aristotle's Theory of Actions under Duress -- 8.2.3. Ignorance as a Source of Involuntary Executive Actions -- 8.2.4. What Went Wrong at Starbucks? -- 8.2.5. Aristotle on Voluntary Actions -- 8.2.6. Immanuel Kant: Responsibility as Moral Worth -- 8.2.7. Karl Marx: Responsibility as Historical Determinism -- 8.2.8. Bradley: Attributional Responsibility -- 8.3. Part 2: Contemporary Understanding of Corporate Moral Responsibility -- 8.3.1. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Responsibility as Commitment and Deputyship -- 8.3.2. Bernard Lonergan: Responsibility as Effective Freedom -- 8.3.3. Elizabeth Beardsley: Ascribing Moral Responsibility to Corporate Executives -- 8.4. Part III: A Synthesis of Classical and Contemporary Views of Executive Responsibility -- 8.4.1. Causal and Agent Responsibility -- 8.4.2. Accountability and Commitment -- 8.5. Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Epilogue Corporate Cosmic Spirituality for Today -- Introduction -- What is Corporate Spirituality? -- Corporate Ethics Is Not Enough -- On Corporate Spiritual Leadership -- Reflection-based Corporate Spirituality -- Is Interfering with Human Nature "Playing God" and Hence Morally Problematic? -- Ignatian Spirituality: Finding God in All Things. Concluding Remarks. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910332652503321 |
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Mascarenhas Oswald A. J
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| Emerald Publishing, 2019 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Industrial Concentration and the Chicago School of Antitrust Analysis : A Critical Evaluation on the Basis of Effective Competition
| Industrial Concentration and the Chicago School of Antitrust Analysis : A Critical Evaluation on the Basis of Effective Competition |
| Autore | Rittaler Jan B |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Frankfurt am Main : , : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, , 1989 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (422) |
| Disciplina | 338.8 |
| Collana | Hohenheimer volkswirtschaftliche Schriften |
| Soggetto topico |
Economics
Law and economics |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Analysis
Antitrust Basis Chicago Competition Concentration Critical Effective Evaluation Industrial Rittaler School |
| ISBN | 3-631-75388-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Introduction: Antitrust Economics, Policy, and Law at the Crossroads: A Reorientation -- I. The Context -- II. Developments in U.S. Antitrust Policy During the 1970s and 1980s -- 1. Antitrust Economics -- 2. Antitrust Enforcement -- a. The Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice -- b. The Federal Trade Commission -- 3. Antitrust Adjudication -- 4. Antitrust Legislation -- III. The Source of Reorientation: The Chicago School of Antitrust Analysis -- 1. The Foundations -- 2. Chicago Antitrust Philosophy -- IV. Definition of the Field of Research and Course of Inquiry -- Part 1: Analytical Framework for the Evaluation of Restraints of Competition by Industrial Concentration -- I. Free Enterprise System. Competition, and Public Policy -- 1. Economic Order and Competition -- 2. Nature and Meaning of Competition -- 3. Competition and Public Policy -- II. Economic Evaluation of Industrial Concentration: Theoretical Approach and Public Policy -- 1. Antitrust Policy Objectives -- a. Objectives and Interrelations -- b. Conflicting Objectives -- 2. Elements of the Approach to an Evaluation of Industrial Concentration -- a. Models of Competition -- b. The Structure-, Conduct-, Performance-Paradigm, and the Competitive Process -- c. Effective Competition and Competition Impairment -- d. Intensity of Competition and the Adequate Test -- 3. The Treatment of Competition Impairment and Public Policy Alternatives -- a. Approaches -- b. Rules -- III. Competition and Industrial Concentration -- 1. Concentration and Economic Theory -- a. Nature and Meaning of Economic Concentration -- b. Economic Concentration and Power -- c. Features of Industrial Concentration -- aa. Significance -- bb. Causes -- cc. Effects -- d. Forms of Industrial Concentration -- aa. Internal Growth -- bb. External Growth -- (1) Horizontal Mergers -- (2) Vertical Mergers.
(3) Conglomerate Mergers -- 2. Measurement of Industrial Concentration -- a. Analysis of Industrial Concentration -- b. Defining the Relevant Market -- c. Measures of Industrial Concentration -- IV. Concluding Remarks -- Part 2: The Central Elements of the Current Theoretical Edifice -- I. The Current Debate on The Goals of Antitrust: Economics or Sociopolitics? -- 1. The Current Efficiency-Orientation -- 2. Evidence of the Goals of Antitrust -- a. Legislative History of the Antitrust Statutes -- b. Adjudicative Development -- c. Plausibility Considerations -- 3. Antitrust Legislation and Rent-Seeking Behavior -- 4. The German Case -- II. Methodology and Theoretical Model Underlying the Evaluation of the Competitiveness of Mergers -- 1. The General Methodology of Analysis -- a. Neoclassical Price Theory as an Instrument of Analysis -- b. Price/Quantity-Interrelations as Indicators of Consumer Welfare -- c. The General Methodology: Conclusions -- 2. Mergers, Efficiency, and the Model for Evaluation -- a. Consumer Welfare and Efficiency: Remarks on Interdependence -- b. The Incorporation of Current Efficiency Considerations -- c. The Partial Equilibrium Trade-Off Model Reconsidered -- d. Qualifications to the Model -- aa. Premises and Assumptions -- bb. General Welfare Measurement -- cc. Allocative Efficiency -- dd. Productive Efficiency -- ee. Transfer of Wealth -- III. Impediments to New Competition -- 1. Perfect Competition, Monopoly, and Potential Competition -- 2. The Meaning, Definition, and Importance of Barriers to New Competition -- 3. The Measurement of Barriers to New Competition -- 4. Kinds of Barriers to New Competition and their Sources: Plausibility and Empirical Evidence -- a. Structural Barriers -- aa. Economies of Large Scale -- bb. Absolute Cost Advantages -- cc. Product Differentiation Advantages -- b. Strategic Barriers. c. Legal and Administrative Barriers -- d. Barriers to Exit -- 5. An Evaluation of Impediments to New Competition -- IV. Concluding Remarks -- Part 3: Industrial Concentration through Horizontal Mergers: Effects on Performance -- I. The Economic Rationale Underlying the Traditional Merger Policy -- 1. The Content of the Concentration-Collusion Doctrine -- 2. Economic Returns as a Standard of Measurement -- 3. Empirical Attempts to Verify the Concentration-Collusion Doctrine -- a. Empirical Evidence -- aa. Concentration and Prices -- bb. Concentration, Profit Rates, and Price-Cost Margins -- b. Collusion and "Critical Levels" of Concentration -- c. The Suitability of the Different Performance Criteria -- d. Insufficiencies of Traditional Studies -- II. The Validity of the Mainline Paradigm and the New Learning-Hypothesis -- 1. Efficiency as a Cause of Concentration -- 2. Concentration as a Possible Cause of Collusion -- 3. The Theoretical Basis and the Empirical Evidence of the New Learning-Hypothesis -- 4. Revised Policy Conclusions for Horizontal Mergers -- 5. Critical Evaluation of the New Learning-Hypotheses, the Underlying Premises, and their Empirical Evidence -- a. Impediments to Competition -- b. Accounting Data and the Data Base -- c. The Core of the Oligopoly and Other Omissions -- d. The Persistence of Profits in the Long Run -- III. Firm Market Share as the Essential Determinant of Interfirm Profitability Differences -- 1. Interfirm Profitability Differences: Efficiency or Market Power? -- 2. The Range of Economies of Size as an Alternative Explanatory Approach -- 3. The Evidence of Efficiency on the Basis of Merger Performance -- IV. Concluding Remarks -- Part 4: Vertical Mergers: Anticompetitive Effects and the Attainment of Efficiencies -- I. Vertical Integration and Efficiency-Enhancement. 1. Transaction-Costs and Different Mechanisms for the Organization of Economic Exchange -- a. Economic Exchange via Markets: Costs of Using the Price Mechanism -- b. Economic Exchange via Organizations: Costs of Using Internal Organization -- 2. Efficiency-Enhancement as the Underlying Reasoning for Vertical Integration -- 3. Efficiency Gains vs. Anticompetitive Consequences: Necessity for a Trade-Off? -- II. Empirical Evidence on the Extent of Vertical Integration and Associated Efficiency Advantages -- 1. The Measurement of the Extent of Vertical Integration -- 2. The Empirical Evidence on Efficiency-Enhancement -- a. Studies on Transaction-Specific Market Characteristics -- b. Studies on Actual Cost Savings -- 3. A Critical Review of the Applicability of the Transaction-Cost Approach to an Efficiency Analysis of Vertical Integration -- III. An Evaluation of Possible Anticompetitive Consequences Resulting from Vertical Integration -- 1. The Reasoning Underlying Anticipated Anticompetitive Consequences: Foreclosure of Actual and Potential Competitors -- 2. Particular Anticompetitive Effects Associated with Foreclosure -- a. Price and Output Consequences -- b. Price and Supply Squeeze -- c. Price Discrimination -- d. Impediments to New Competition -- e. Collusive Effects -- 3. The Likelihood of Anticompetitive Effects and Revised Policy Conclusions -- IV. Concluding Remarks -- Résumée: Application of the Results of an Analysis of the Chicago School Approach Towards Industrial Concentration -- I. The Legal Treatment of Industrial Concentration -- 1. The Approach -- 2. The Relevant Statutes -- 3. The Merger Term in the Statutes -- 4. The Minimum Thresholds -- 5. The Point of Intervention -- 6. Overall Justification -- II. Trends and Tendencies in Enforcement and Adjudication -- 1. The Use of Economic Evidence in Enforcement and Adjudication. 2. An Evaluation of Trends and Tendencies -- a. Determining Market Delineation -- b. Determining Market Domination -- aa. Superior Market Position -- (1) Market Structure -- (a) Market Share -- (b) Financial Strength -- (c) Market Barriers -- (2) Market Conduct -- bb. Oligopolistic Domination -- c. Strengthening Market Domination -- III. An Evaluation of the Propositions for a Reform of Merger Control in the Fifth Amendment of the ARC -- 1. Political and Economic Order: Thoughts on Structural Complementarity -- 2. The Object of Protection: Competition vs. Competitors -- 3. An Evaluation of the Proposals on the Basis of Our State of Knowledge -- a. The Proposals -- b. The Evaluation -- IV. Concluding Remarks. |
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Hohenheimer volkswirtschaftliche Schriften vol. 11
Industrial Concentration and the Chicago School of Antitrust Analysis |
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Rittaler Jan B
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| Frankfurt am Main : , : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, , 1989 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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