Industrial Organization: The Oxford Influence (1952–1979)

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Abstract:This article seeks to provide a better understanding of the history of Industrial Organization (IO). More precisely, it stresses the specific influence Oxford economists had between 1952 and 1979 on the developments of modern trends in the discipline. This work focuses on three main sub‐fields of IO, namely, the empirical approach to concrete forms of organization prevailing in the managerial world, the impact of information and knowledge on the discipline, and the use of game theory within IO.