Contributors; CHAPTER ONE: Firms, Markets, and Hierarchies: Introduction and Overview; PART I: Background; PART II: Conceptual Uses; PART III: Industrial Applications; PART IV: Microanalytics; Author Index; Subject Index.
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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 c.
Firms, markets, and hierarchies.
Williamson, Oliver E., Markets and hierarchies, analysis and antitrust implications