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Underground Economics: A Decade of Institutionalist Dissent (Chap. 12 "The Transaction-Cost Analysis of Oliver E. Williamson: A New Synthesis?") » Read Now
by William M. Dugger. 372 pgs.

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Transaction Cost Theories of Business Enterprise from Williamson and Veblen: Convergence, Divergence, and Some Evidence, in Journal of Economic Issues » Read Now
by Janet T. Knoedler. 11 pgs.

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...Nature of the Firm, edited by Oliver E. Williamson and Sidney G. Winter. New York...Transaction Cost Analysis of Oliver E. Williamson: A New Synthesis?" Journal...Nature of...
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Sovereignty in Transaction Cost Economics: John R. Commons and Oliver E. Williamson, in Journal of Economic Issues » Read Now
by William M. Dugger. 6 pgs.

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...economics: John R. Commons and Oliver E. Williamson. by William M. Dugger...rediscovered and redeveloped by Oliver E. Williamson Dugger 1979, 1980, 1983, 1987...Transaction...
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The Nature of Transition Cost Economics, in Journal of Economic Issues » Read Now
by Stephen Pratten. 23 pgs.

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...transform such relations, e.g., whether the actions...would appear possible. Williamson seems to regard himself...developed most notably by Oliver Williamson. 2...
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Technology, Organization, and Competitiveness: Perspectives on Industrial and Corporate Change ("Transaction Cost Economics and Organization Theory" by Oliver E. Williamson begins on p. 17) » Read Now
by Giovanni Dosi, David J. Teece, Josef Chytry. 350 pgs.

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This book brings together the work of leading international thinkers working in the overlapping areas of economics, organization studies, business history, corporate strategy, and innovation. There is a growing awareness that the perspectives of a single discipline are unable to capture and explain...
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This book brings together the work of leading international thinkers working in the overlapping areas of economics, organization studies, business history, corporate strategy, and innovation. There is a growing awareness that the perspectives of a single discipline are unable to capture and explain the complexities and dynamics of firm behaviour, organizational structure, and corporate strategy. All the chapters in this book are drawn from the pioneering journal Industrial and Corporate Change opening up the inter-disciplinary coverage of the journal to a wider readership. Here readers will find extensive and original contributions from economists Oliver Williamson, Richard Nelson, and Martin Fransman; sociology and organization theorists Mark Granovetter and Gary Hamilton; business historians William Lazonick and Jonathan West; innovation scholars Parimal Patel, Keith Pavitt, and Giovanni Dosi; and business strategists David Teece and Gary Pisano. This book will be vital reading for all those who want to get to grips with the best of current international thinking on the dynamic interplay of technology, organization, and competition.
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Antitrust, Innovation, and Competitiveness (Chap. 7 "Antitrust Lenses and the Uses of Transaction Cost Economics Reasoning" by Oliver E. Williamson) » Read Now
by Thomas M. Jorde, David J. Teece. 246 pgs.

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This book explores how the U.S. antitrust laws, especially the Sherman Antitrust Act, have affected the ways in which U.S. corporations can form alliances to compete in world markets. The editors start from the premise that current antitrust laws unwisely restrain innovation by inhibiting desirable...
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This book explores how the U.S. antitrust laws, especially the Sherman Antitrust Act, have affected the ways in which U.S. corporations can form alliances to compete in world markets. The editors start from the premise that current antitrust laws unwisely restrain innovation by inhibiting desirable pro-competitive communication and cooperation between firms. This results in an impediment to the performance of U.S. firms competing in industries experiencing rapid technological change. Not all of the contributors agree with the editors about the degree to which the antitrust laws do indeed inhibit U.S. industry. Thus, the book represents a variety of views on a topic of increasing importance. Contributors include Phillip Areeda, William J. Baumol, Ann I. Jones, Robert P. Merges, Richard R. Nelson, Janusz A. Ordover, Thomas M. Jorde, Richard Schmalensee, Lawrence A. Sullivan, David M. Teece, Oliver E. Williamson, and Judge Frank H. Easterbrook.
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Governmental Controls and the Free Market: The U.S. Economy in the 1970's (Chap. 7 "The Modern Corporation as an Efficiency Instrument" by Oliver E. Williamson) » Read Now
by Svetozar Pejovich. 227 pgs.

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...Banking 6 , no. 4 Nov., 1974 , and E. Thompson, "The Theory of Money and Income...increased variance at higher rates. My colleague E. Thompson suggested one explanation...
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Firms, Markets, and Hierarchies: The Transaction Cost Economics Perspective (Chap. Three "Some Reflections" by Oliver E. Williamson and Chap. Four "About Oliver E. Williamson") » Read Now
by Glenn R. Carroll, David J. Teece. 544 pgs.

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This book examines transaction cost economics, the influential theoretical perspective on organizations and industry that was the subject of Oliver Williamson's seminal book,Markets and Hierarchies (1975). Written by leading economists, sociologists, and political scientists, the essays collected...
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This book examines transaction cost economics, the influential theoretical perspective on organizations and industry that was the subject of Oliver Williamson's seminal book,Markets and Hierarchies (1975). Written by leading economists, sociologists, and political scientists, the essays collected here reflect the fruitful intellectual exchange that is occurring across the major social science disciplines. They examine transaction cost economics' general conceptual orientation, its specific theoretical propositions, its applications to policy, and its use in systematic empirical research. The chapters include classic texts, broad review essays, reflective commentaries, and several new contributions to a wide range of topics, including organizations, regulations and law, institutions, strategic management, game theory, entrepreneurship, innovation, finance, and technical information. The book begins with an overview of theory and research on transaction cost economics, highlighting the specific accomplishments of scholars working within the perspective and emphasizing the enormous influence that transaction cost reasoning exerts on the social sciences. The following section covers conceptual uses for the transaction cost framework and major theoretical or methodological elements within it, such as bounded rationality. While advancing some interesting theoretical propositions, these chapters are in fact more ambitious: each examines a specific field, area, or research program and attempts to fashion a new way of thinking about research questions. In the section on industrial applications, contributors study the application of transaction cost theory to a range of problems in utilities, telecommunications, laser printing, and early international trade. The book closes with four microanalytical chapters that delve into the structures and behaviors of specific aspects of firms and organizations: boards of directors, equity structures, employment models, human resource policies and practices, technology strategies, and innovation events. Firms, Markets, and Hierarchies collects excellent social science work on transaction cost economics, taking stock of its status, charting its future development, and fostering its renewal and evolution.
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Revitalizing Antitrust in Its Second Century: Essays on Legal, Economic, and Political Policy (Chap. 10 "Delimiting Antitrust" by Oliver E. Williamson) » Read Now
by Harry First, Eleanor M. Fox, Robert Pitofsky. 550 pgs.

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In this provocative new work, a distinguished group of policymakers, legal scholars, and economists challenge the prevailing view that antitrust legislation is no longer relevant, arguing instead that antitrust, progressively construed and adapted to today's economic realties, remains the most...
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In this provocative new work, a distinguished group of policymakers, legal scholars, and economists challenge the prevailing view that antitrust legislation is no longer relevant, arguing instead that antitrust, progressively construed and adapted to today's economic realties, remains the most promising national economic policy for this country. Their papers address a range of topics, including the impact of underenforcement of antitrust law in the 1980s, the implications of global markets and competition, theoretical advances, and the future of antitrust.
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Firms, Organizations and Contracts: A Reader in Industrial Organization (Chap. 6 "Transaction-Cost Economics: The Governance of Contractual Relations" by Oliver E. Williamson) » Read Now
by Peter J. Buckley, Jonathan Michie. 482 pgs.

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What is a firm? Why do firms exist? How is production and administration best co-ordinated? What are the reasons for vertical integration? And disintegration? Is there a conflict between establishing and developing long-term relationships on the one hand, and the operation of free market competition...
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What is a firm? Why do firms exist? How is production and administration best co-ordinated? What are the reasons for vertical integration? And disintegration? Is there a conflict between establishing and developing long-term relationships on the one hand, and the operation of free market competition on the other? Is there a choice between markets and hierarchies? What about networks and clans? These questions continue to be explored with economics, management, sociology and other related disciplines. Firms, Organizations and Contracts brings together the best inter-disciplinary analysis of the topic, and contains classic contributions and material not normally seen by those outside their own particular disciplines. It combines pioneer articles with more recent discussions of an area attracting growing attention amongst those studying industrial organization--whether on courses in economics, management, strategy, organization, law, or public administration. The volume includes Coase's initial enquiry into `The Nature of the Firm' and Ouchi's analysis of `Markets, bureaucracies and clans' Kaldor's questioning of `The Nature of the Firm' and Dore's discussion of `Goodwill and the spirit of market capitalism'. This book will be an invaluable tool for students in economics, management and sociology. In view of the growing use of contracts within the public sector, and within the private regulated sector, the book also sets out some of the key issues of concern to policy makers and public sector strategists.
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The Economics of Contracts: Theories and Applications (Chap. 3 "Contract and Economic Organization" by Oliver E. Williamson ) » Read Now
by Eric Brousseau, Jean-Michel Glachant. 584 pgs.

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This is a comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of the economic analysis of contracts written by a specially commissioned team of leading international scholars. The book offers a well structured analysis of theoretical developments, the diverse fields of applications, the methodologies in use, and...
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This is a comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of the economic analysis of contracts written by a specially commissioned team of leading international scholars. The book offers a well structured analysis of theoretical developments, the diverse fields of applications, the methodologies in use, and the policy implications at both firm and state level. It offers a unique combination of theoretical and applied economics along with insights from law and management sciences. The volume is designed to appeal to scholars, graduate students and practitioners in economics, management and law.
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The American Corporation Today (Chap. 10 "The Modern Corporation as an Efficiency Instrument: the Comparative Contracting Perspective" by Oliver E. Williamson) » Read Now
by Carl Kaysen. 501 pgs.

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Not since Edward Mason's classic book The Corporation in Modern Society appeared in 1959 has anyone compiled an authoritative overview of the American business firm. Such a survey is now clearly overdue, for in the last thirty years both the corporation and the business environment has changed...
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Not since Edward Mason's classic book The Corporation in Modern Society appeared in 1959 has anyone compiled an authoritative overview of the American business firm. Such a survey is now clearly overdue, for in the last thirty years both the corporation and the business environment has changed radically. In The American Corporation Today, Carl Kaysen and other leading students of business and markets from around the country provide a much-needed analysis of American corporate life at the end of the century. Here is the American corporation from every angle--its postwar history, its relation to the law, its financing, its impact on technological innovation, its role as employer and as political force, and much more. The contributors--all of whom are recognized experts in their fields--not only tackle many of the same key areas that the contributors to Mason's classic study looked at, but they also illuminate issues that have only arisen in recent years. For instance, Raymond Vernon describes the increasing globalization of American business, where the net income from operations outside the U.S. is now nearly half of that from domestic operations (as opposed to one-tenth in the 1950s). James Q. Wilson traces how the corporation has become a full-time political actor, showing how it reinvented its political strategy and tactics in the 1960s in the face of a wave of new consumer, environmental, and worker health legislation. Gregory Acs and Eugene Steuerle show how the corporation promotes the commonweal, acting as agent for the employee in purchasing pension, health, and other welfare benefit plans, while Lester Thurow casts a critical eye at the decline of median real wages of American males over the last twenty years (never before have a majority of American workers suffered real wage reductions while the real per capita gross domestic product was increasing). In other pieces, corporate finance experts Charles Calomiris and Carlos Ramirez advocate removing legal constraints on financial institutions that prevent them from providing the full range of business financing from short-term debt to equity, Michael Useem looks at the rise of education and training as a vexing corporate issue, and Barbara Bergmann discusses the increasingly diverse work force, arguing that ending bias is in the corporation's best interest. And finally Neil Harris provides a fascinating discussion of architecture, exploring how companies have become the principle patrons of important architecture since the 1950s. Vital to everyone concerned with American big business today, this collection is sure to become the new standard upon which future studies of the corporation will be built.
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