Why does headquaters voluntarily transfer its bargaining power to business units? / Shin'ya Okuda, Takaya Kubota and Yoshimi Chujo.

Okuda, Shin'ya and Kubota, Takaya and Chujo, Yoshimi (2019) Why does headquaters voluntarily transfer its bargaining power to business units? / Shin'ya Okuda, Takaya Kubota and Yoshimi Chujo. Asia-Pacific Management Accounting Journal (APMAJ), 14 (2). pp. 105-114. ISSN 2550-1631

Abstract

The objective of our paper is to provide the reason why the headquarters voluntarily transfer its bargaining power to the business unit by stylizing an incomplete contract model. Our model shows that the equilibrium bargaining power selected by the headquarters is negatively correlated with the importance attached to the business unit’s operations. It means when incomplete contracts severely restrict an important business unit’s incentive to invest because of holdup problem, then the headquarters should necessarily provide the business unit with some degree of bargaining power. This result is consistent with the fact that the independence of a business unit (e.g., spin-offs) is a commonly observable practice. Building on our model, independence of the business unit can be interpreted as a consequence of a gradual delegation of authority by the headquarters. Our paper contributes to both of economics and management accounting literature through providing a model concerning to a decision of organizational structure.

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Okuda, Shin'ya
s-okuda@econ.nagoya-cu.ac.jp
Kubota, Takaya
kubota.takaya@h.mbox.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Chujo, Yoshimi
chujo@hannan-u.ac.jp
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > Risk management. Risk in industry. Operational risk
H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > Personnel management. Employment management
Divisions: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam > Accounting Research Institute (ARI)
Journal or Publication Title: Asia-Pacific Management Accounting Journal (APMAJ)
UiTM Journal Collections: UiTM Journal > Asia-Pacific Management Accounting Journal (APMAJ)
ISSN: 2550-1631
Volume: 14
Number: 2
Page Range: pp. 105-114
Keywords: Bargaining power, Cost structure, Independence of business unit
Date: August 2019
URI: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29276
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