Collective Bargaining by Business: Economic and Legal Implications
Collective Bargaining by Business: Economic and Legal Implications
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10.2139/ssrn.2297155
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2013-07
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Stephen P. King
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Stephen P. King
有时，企业通过合作社或其他组织结构联合在一起，以集中其购买或销售商品和服务的能力，这有时是互惠互利的。集体谈判是企业之间仅限于购买或销售特定产品的一种特殊形式的合作。根据竞争法，竞争对手之间的集体协议往往是非法的。然而，在一些司法管辖区，如澳大利亚和欧盟，集体谈判可以不受这些法律的约束。在这些法域，对豁免的检验包括分析豁免的成本和收益。本文分析了企业集体谈判的成本和收益。这一条的目的有三个：(1)建立一个简单的经济框架，分析市场一方的集体谈判集团与市场另一方的供应商或客户之间的谈判的成本和收益；(2)将这一框架的结果与澳大利亚竞争和消费者委员会(ACCC)在最近的集体谈判决定中采用的方法进行比较；(3)突出ACCC可以重点关注的潜在关切领域。
It is sometimes mutually beneficial for businesses to join together through a cooperative or other organisational structure in order to pool their ability to buy or sell goods and services. Collective bargaining is a particular form of cooperation between businesses that is limited to either buying or selling particular products. Collective agreements between competitors are often illegal under competition laws. However, in some jurisdictions, such as Australia and the European Union, collective bargaining can be exempt from those laws. The test for exemption in these jurisdictions involves analysing the costs and benefits of exemption. This article analyses both the costs and benefits of collective bargaining by businesses. The aims of this article are threefold: (1) to develop a simple economic framework to analyse the costs and benefits of negotiations between a collective bargaining group on one side of a market and either a supplier or a customer on the other side of the market; (2) to compare the results from this framework with the approach adopted by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) in recent collective bargaining decisions; and (3) to highlight areas of potential concern where the ACCC could focus its attention.