IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ebl/ecbull/eb-19-00672.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The decision to hire managers in the presence of public and CSR firms

Author

Listed:
  • Kadohognon sylvain Ouattara

    (ESDES The Business School of Ucly (Université Catholique de Lyon))

  • Ahmed haidara Ould abdessalam

    (Lecturer at IESEG school of management, Paris-La Défence socle de la Grande-Arche)

Abstract

The main aim of this paper is to study the endogenous choice of managerial incentives in a mixed duopoly of one public firm and one Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) firm. The managerial delegation contract of the public firm includes social welfare and that of the CSR firm takes into account consumer surplus. We show that, in equilibrium, the government (as the owner of the public firm) should always hire a manager and delegate the production decision. However, the CSR firm hires a manager only if the degree of social concern is sufficiently high. Furthermore, adopting these delegation contracts is a better strategy from a social welfare viewpoint.

Suggested Citation

  • Kadohognon sylvain Ouattara & Ahmed haidara Ould abdessalam, 2019. "The decision to hire managers in the presence of public and CSR firms," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 39(4), pages 2517-2526.
    • Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-19-00672
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.accessecon.com/Pubs/EB/2019/Volume39/EB-19-V39-I4-P234.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Toshihiro Matsumura & Makoto Okamura, 2015. "Competition and privatization policies revisited: the payoff interdependence approach," Journal of Economics, Springer, vol. 116(2), pages 137-150, October.
    2. Barros, Fatima, 1995. "Incentive schemes as strategic variables: An application to a mixed duopoly," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 13(3), pages 373-386, September.
    3. Sabri Boubaker & Duc Khuong Nguyen (ed.), 2012. "Board Directors and Corporate Social Responsibility," Palgrave Macmillan Books, Palgrave Macmillan, number 978-0-230-38930-4, December.
    4. Matsumura, Toshihiro, 1998. "Partial privatization in mixed duopoly," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 70(3), pages 473-483, December.
    5. White, Mark D., 2001. "Managerial incentives and the decision to hire managers in markets with public and private firms," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 17(4), pages 877-896, November.
    6. Fershtman, Chaim & Judd, Kenneth L, 1987. "Equilibrium Incentives in Oligopoly," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 77(5), pages 927-940, December.
    7. Yasuhiko Nakamura, 2019. "Endogenous Choice of the Timing of Setting Incentive Parameters and the Strategic Contracts in a Managerial Mixed Duopoly with a Welfare-Based Delegation Contract and a Sales Delegation Contract," Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, Springer, vol. 19(4), pages 679-737, December.
    8. Seung-Leul Kim & Sang-Ho Lee & Toshihiro Matsumura, 2019. "Corporate social responsibility and privatization policy in a mixed oligopoly," Journal of Economics, Springer, vol. 128(1), pages 67-89, September.
    9. Sylvain Ouattara Kadohognon, 2013. "Incitations managériales dans un duopole mixte : cas de la privatisation partielle de la firme publique," Revue d'économie politique, Dalloz, vol. 123(4), pages 495-517.
    10. Bian, Junsong & Li, Kevin W. & Guo, Xiaolei, 2016. "A strategic analysis of incorporating CSR into managerial incentive design," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 86(C), pages 83-93.
    11. Kadohognon sylvain Ouattara, 2017. "Strategic privatization in a mixed duopoly with a socially responsible firm," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 37(3), pages 2067-2075.
    12. Nakamura, Yasuhiko, 2015. "Endogenous choice of strategic incentives in a mixed duopoly with a new managerial delegation contract for the public firm," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 35(C), pages 262-277.
    13. Steven D. Sklivas, 1987. "The Strategic Choice of Managerial Incentives," RAND Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 18(3), pages 452-458, Autumn.
    14. Gregory E. Goering, 2007. "The strategic use of managerial incentives in a non-profit firm mixed duopoly," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 28(2), pages 83-91.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. John S. Heywood & Guangliang Ye, 2009. "Delegation in a mixed oligopoly: the case of multiple private firms," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 30(2), pages 71-82.
    2. Yasuhiko Nakamura, 2019. "Endogenous Choice of the Timing of Setting Incentive Parameters and the Strategic Contracts in a Managerial Mixed Duopoly with a Welfare-Based Delegation Contract and a Sales Delegation Contract," Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, Springer, vol. 19(4), pages 679-737, December.
    3. Nakamura, Yasuhiko, 2019. "Combining the endogenous choice of the timing of setting incentive parameters and the contents of strategic contracts in a managerial mixed duopoly," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 59(C), pages 207-233.
    4. Yasuhiko Nakamura, 2020. "Endogenously choosing the timing of setting strategic contracts’ levels and content in a managerial mixed duopoly with welfare-based and sales delegation contracts," International Review of Economics, Springer;Happiness Economics and Interpersonal Relations (HEIRS), vol. 67(3), pages 363-402, September.
    5. Kadohognon S Ouattara, 2016. "How privatization affects the strategic choice of managerial incentives: the case of international mixed duopoly," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 36(2), pages 1038-1045.
    6. John S. Heywood & Zerong Wang & Guangliang Ye, 2022. "Strategic delegation in an international mixed oligopoly," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 43(6), pages 1888-1898, September.
    7. Juan Carlos Barcena-Ruiz, 2010. "Strategic Delegation and Semipublic Firms," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 30(1), pages 744-750.
    8. João Correia-da-Silva & Joana Pinho, 2018. "Collusion in mixed oligopolies and the coordinated effects of privatization," Journal of Economics, Springer, vol. 124(1), pages 19-55, May.
    9. Kangsik Choi, 2023. "Endogenous organizational form in a multiproduct mixed duopoly," The Japanese Economic Review, Springer, vol. 74(2), pages 279-299, April.
    10. Nakamura, Yasuhiko, 2015. "Endogenous choice of strategic incentives in a mixed duopoly with a new managerial delegation contract for the public firm," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 35(C), pages 262-277.
    11. Arijit Mukherjee & Kullapat Suetrong, 2013. "Privatization, Incentive Delegation and Foreign Direct Investment," Open Economies Review, Springer, vol. 24(4), pages 657-676, September.
    12. Yasuhiko Nakamura, 2019. "Combining the Endogenous Choice of the Timing of Setting the Levels of Strategic Contracts and Their Contents in a Managerial Mixed Duopoly," Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, Springer, vol. 19(2), pages 235-261, June.
    13. Bian, Junsong & Li, Kevin W. & Guo, Xiaolei, 2016. "A strategic analysis of incorporating CSR into managerial incentive design," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 86(C), pages 83-93.
    14. Leal, Mariel & Garcia, Arturo & Lee, Sang-Ho, 2020. "Strategic CSR and merger in multiproduct mixed markets with state-holding corporation," MPRA Paper 102351, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 10 Aug 2020.
    15. Michael Kopel & Marco Marini, 2014. "Strategic delegation in consumer cooperatives under mixed oligopoly," Journal of Economics, Springer, vol. 113(3), pages 275-296, November.
    16. Du, Ninghua & Heywood, John S. & Ye, Guangliang, 2013. "Strategic delegation in an experimental mixed duopoly," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 87(C), pages 91-100.
    17. Yasuhiko Nakamura, 2022. "Corporate social responsibility focusing on consumer surplus and endogenous competition structure: A case of managerial delegation," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 43(7), pages 3000-3018, October.
    18. Kadohognon Sylvain Ouattara, 2015. "Délégation stratégique dans un duopole mixte international," Economics Working Paper Archive (University of Rennes & University of Caen) 201518, Center for Research in Economics and Management (CREM), University of Rennes, University of Caen and CNRS.
    19. Kadohognon sylvain Ouattara, 2017. "Strategic privatization in a mixed duopoly with a socially responsible firm," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 37(3), pages 2067-2075.
    20. Kopel, Michael & Brand, Björn, 2012. "Socially responsible firms and endogenous choice of strategic incentives," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 29(3), pages 982-989.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Mixed markets; Socially concerned firms; Public firm; Strategic incentives;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • L1 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance
    • L3 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-19-00672. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: John P. Conley (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.