Stakeholder Governance, Competition and Firm Value

42 Pages Posted: 13 Mar 2014

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Franklin Allen

Imperial College London

Elena Carletti

Bocconi University - Department of Finance; European University Institute - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS)

Robert Marquez

University of California, Davis

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Date Written: February 21, 2014

Abstract

In many countries, the legal system or social norms ensure that firms are stakeholder oriented. We analyze the advantages and disadvantages of stakeholder-oriented firms that are concerned with employees and suppliers compared to shareholder-oriented firms in a model of imperfect competition. Stakeholder firms are more (less) valuable than shareholder firms when marginal cost uncertainty is greater (less) than demand uncertainty. With globalization shareholder firms and stakeholder firms often compete. We identify the circumstances where stakeholder firms are more valuable than shareholder firms and compare these mixed equilibria with the pure equilibria with stakeholder and shareholder firms only. Finally, we analyze firm financial constraints and derive implications for the capital structure of stakeholder firms.

JEL Classification: G320, L210, L220

Suggested Citation

Allen, Franklin and Carletti, Elena and Marquez, Robert S., Stakeholder Governance, Competition and Firm Value (February 21, 2014). CESifo Working Paper Series No. 4652, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2407877 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2407877

Franklin Allen

Imperial College London ( email )

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Elena Carletti (Contact Author)

Bocconi University - Department of Finance ( email )

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European University Institute - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) ( email )

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Robert S. Marquez

University of California, Davis ( email )

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Davis, CA 95616
United States

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