THE MODERN BUSINESS FIRM is an organization for making and implementing decisions
within a market economy. In most major industries of well-developed economies, most firms
are large, complex organizations. These organizations render a set of key decisions for ...

Abstract Many firms, especially transnational corporations, find it increasingly difficult to
predict and handle conflicts with external interest groups. In addition to a set of established
stakeholders, they face a complex arena of newly emerging “stakeseekers” who also ...

Abstract In the case of technology transitions to low-carbon sources of energy, there is
growing evidence that even in countries with a strong political consensus in favor of a
transition, the pace has been slow in comparison with the need to reduce greenhouse ...

... I have argued (Greif, 1990b) that around the middle of the 12th century, agency relations between
Genoese mer- chants and their overseas agents were gov- erned by a "political coalition." The
politi- cal faction that controlled Genoa held a monopoly over the city's lucrative ...

THE purpose of this paper is to offer a rationale for dairy farmers' support of retail price
controls on bottled milk. Because of essentially fixed proportions in production, it can be
anticipated that the imposition of a binding minimum retail price constraint on bottled milk ...

This paper reexamines some recent empirical evidence on the hypothesis that institutional
arrangements in the political process affect budget deficits. The results of Roubini and Sachs
(1989b) are replicated, and sensitivity analysis indicate that their results are robust. ...

On 8 November 1988, when the American voters decreed that Republican George Bush
would succeed Ronald Reagan in the White House but the opposition Democratic Party
would control both houses of the Congress, it was the sixth time in the last nine ...

Abstract 1. Reviews 3 classes of game theoretic solution concepts (solutions, subsolutions,
and the core; bargaining set models; and the Shapley value), 4 social psychological models
of coalition formation (minimum resource theory, minimum power theory, bargaining ...

... And all the varieties of interaction among groups and between groups and officials
are also treated as equivalent, to such an extent that only one term is employed
for all forms of political inter- action: the coalition. Coalitions ...

... If the consumer groups recognize this fact at the time of the initial compromise, they can
compensate for their relatively poor monitoring abilities by building lengthy delay into the
deal-giving them time to mobilize themselves into an effective political coalition. ...