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Organizational Capital, Product Market Competition and Technical Efficiency in Italian Cooperatives

In: Cooperative Firms in Global Markets

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  • Ornella Wanda Maietta
  • Vania Sena

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This paper tries to identify under which conditions increasing market competition may help cooperatives to improve technical efficiency to guarantee positive profits. This hypothesis is first formalized in a partial equilibrium framework and then is tested on a sample of Italian conventional and cooperative firms, using frontier analysis. Technical efficiency indexes are computed by using the one-stage approach as suggested by Battese and Coelli (1995), where proxies for competition are introduced as determinants of efficiency, along with other exogenous factors accounting for the firms’ heterogeneity. However, the overall impact of increasing competition on efficiency is negative.

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  • Ornella Wanda Maietta & Vania Sena, 2007. "Organizational Capital, Product Market Competition and Technical Efficiency in Italian Cooperatives," Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Managed Firms, in: Cooperative Firms in Global Markets, pages 29-45, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:aeapzz:s0885-3339(06)10002-2
    DOI: 10.1016/S0885-3339(06)10002-2
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