Abstract

Resume The question of social ontology is considered irrelevant to the economic debate on the genesis of the firm. This article aims to show that the ontological nature of the firm can be explained by stressing the need to: (1) go beyond simple individualism and reductionism; (2) analyze the firm as a (re)constitutive emergent entity; (3) understand the cohesive interrelations between the human constituents and the nonhuman resources; and (4) define the firm as an institutionalized organization.

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