Contractual networks, inter-firm cooperation and economic growth / edited by Fabrizio Cafaggi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cafaggi, Fabrizio.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business networks--Law and legislation.

Business networks.

Conflict of laws--Contracts--European Union countries.

Conflict of laws.

Contracts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This insightful book presents a legal and economic analysis of inter-firm cooperation through networks as an alternative to vertical integration. It examines comparatively various forms of collaboration, ranging from consortia to multiparty joint ventures and from franchising to dealerships. Collaboration among firms of different sizes helps to overcome numerous weaknesses of the modern western industrial systems. It permits the governing of vertical disintegration without increasing fragmentation and transaction costs and allows firms to benefit from resource complementarities, favoring divis

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; PART I Contractual networks: the challenges to contract theory; 2. Cooperation, long-term relationships and open-endedness in contractual networks; 3. Do inter-firm networks make access to finance easier? Issues and empirical evidence; 4. Contractual networks and contract theory: a research agenda for European contract law; PART II A comparative framework; 5. Contractual networks in German private law; 6. Linked contracts under French law

7. Contract networks, freedom of contract and the restructuring of privity of contractPART III Toward a European system of decentralized rules?; 8. Interfi rm networks across Europe: a private international law perspective; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-07817-1

9786613078179

1-84980-969-0

OCLC:

721194371