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Business networks reloaded, Stefanie Jung, Peter Krebs, Gunther Teubner (eds.)

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Business networks reloaded

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Stefanie Jung, Peter Krebs, Gunther Teubner (eds.)

Business networks are an important economic phenomenon of increasing practical importance throughout Europe. This research volume examines business networks from an interdisciplinary perspective. Thereby, many contributions deal with a certain form of business networks, the so-called cooperative (non-hierarchical) business networks. With regard to this specific form of cooperation the volume presents new economic findings, proposes a definition and discusses the governance structure of those networks. Moreover, this book analyses if those research results can also be applied to hierarchical, centralized business networks. With medium-sized companies and all the more with large companies, business networks also pose the question of the compatibility with anti-trust law. This volume dedicates three contributions to this important question. They are complemented by papers on liability of the network and its members towards third parties and contributions discussing duties of loyalty and the interpretation of agreements. Based on contributions from Italy, Spain, Germany and Norway, this volume illustrates the European legal perspective on business networks.--, Provided by Publisher

Introductory remarks on the phenomenon of business networks and on this volume / Stefanie Jung, Peter Krebs -- Cooperation gains from network goods / Johannes Glückler, Ingmar Hammer -- Company networks reloaded : putting a general functional approach to defining complex problems to the test / Peter Krebs, Katja Aedtner, Marion Schultes -- The modular system of network activities / Peter Krebs, Stefanie Jung, Katja Aedtner, Marion Schultes -- Governance structures in business networks / Peter Krebs, Stefanie Jung -- Network-like organisations: on their distinction and meaning exemplified by the co-operation in construction / Katja Aedtner -- Company networks and the dichotomy and statics of competition law : a combined dynamic control of conduct and structure as a solution approach / Marion Schultes -- Economic analysis of value-added networks : a holistic approach to the competitive effects of vertical agreements / Jonatan Prosenjak -- Company networks in the light of european market power / Hermann Dück, Alexander Eufinger, Marion Schultes -- The scope of loyalty duties in dynamic networks / Emily M. Weitzenboeck -- A frame for business networks governance / Carlos Gómez Asensio -- Contractual business networks: interpretation criteria and axiological perspective / Camilla Crea -- Virtual enterprises : liability problems in one- and multi-level networks / Katja Aedtner, Gunther Teubner -- Interface-liability : tortious joint liability towards third parties of network-like cooperating companies, and at the same time a contribution to liability in cases of multi-causation / Maximilian Becker