Appraisal of Joint Dominance in the Landscape of Co-opetition
(2010)Department of Business Law
- Abstract
- The accusation of an abuse of joint dominance on the basis of behaviour has been found groundless in Italian Flat Glass. In Airtours, the Commission Decision referring to creation of a joint dominant position and finding that the merger in question was incompatible with the Common Market, has been annulled by the Court as well. Proving the existence of a collusive oligopoly at a fix point of time is not enough in order to sustain the finding of joint dominance; the parties of the collusive oligopoly have to be economically interconnected in such way that the collective strategy adopted is sustainable during a long period of time. This study asserts that the contemporary undertakings can be economically interconnected by means of... (More)
- The accusation of an abuse of joint dominance on the basis of behaviour has been found groundless in Italian Flat Glass. In Airtours, the Commission Decision referring to creation of a joint dominant position and finding that the merger in question was incompatible with the Common Market, has been annulled by the Court as well. Proving the existence of a collusive oligopoly at a fix point of time is not enough in order to sustain the finding of joint dominance; the parties of the collusive oligopoly have to be economically interconnected in such way that the collective strategy adopted is sustainable during a long period of time. This study asserts that the contemporary undertakings can be economically interconnected by means of participation in interfirm networks and co-opetitive interplay. This kind of interaction gives birth to a new form of anticompetitive behaviour, hereby named the implicit collusion. (Less)
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- author
- Andersson, Emanuela
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2010
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Joint Dominance, Implicit Collusion, Network Governance, Process Interoperability, Italian Flat Glass, CEWAL, Airtours, Co-opetition, Juridical science, Rättsvetenskap, juridik
- language
- English
- id
- 1544051
- date added to LUP
- 2010-01-17 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2010-08-03 10:52:59
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abstract = {{The accusation of an abuse of joint dominance on the basis of behaviour has been found groundless in Italian Flat Glass. In Airtours, the Commission Decision referring to creation of a joint dominant position and finding that the merger in question was incompatible with the Common Market, has been annulled by the Court as well. Proving the existence of a collusive oligopoly at a fix point of time is not enough in order to sustain the finding of joint dominance; the parties of the collusive oligopoly have to be economically interconnected in such way that the collective strategy adopted is sustainable during a long period of time. This study asserts that the contemporary undertakings can be economically interconnected by means of participation in interfirm networks and co-opetitive interplay. This kind of interaction gives birth to a new form of anticompetitive behaviour, hereby named the implicit collusion.}},
author = {{Andersson, Emanuela}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Appraisal of Joint Dominance in the Landscape of Co-opetition}},
year = {{2010}},
}