ABSTRACT
A company network is every legally voluntary connection based on an economic and legal network aim of a minimum of three legally independent companies which induce a network-specific demand for organisation. In business networks, legally independent companies at least partially exchange their economic independence for the co-ordination of their economic activities. Besides the co-ordination of their economic activities within the network the immanent exchange of information could allow the network participants to communicate beyond the network in areas and markets not connected to the network. Business networks and the possible restraints of competition caused by them can affect the network members' present as well as their future behaviour. The introduction of a combined dynamic two-stage analysis that covers the need to subject business networks to both a dynamic control concerning behavioural-specific effects and structural-specific effects allows for overcoming the deficits competition law has with regard to business networks.
