Transaction Cost Economics and Beyond

Abstract

Preface. 1. Transaction Cost Economics and Beyond: Why and How? J. Groenewegen. 2. Efficiency, Power, Authority, and Economic Organization O.E. Williamson. 3. Empirical Research in Transaction Cost Economics: Challenges, Progress, Directions S.E. Masten. 4. Transaction Cost Analysis and Marketing E. Anderson. 5. Regulatory Issues with Vertically Disintegrated Public Utilities: a Transaction-Cost Analysis K.J. Crocker. 6. Opportunism and Trust in Transaction Cost Economics N.G. Noorderhaven. 7. Short-Term Prevalence, Social Approval and the Governance of Employment Relations S.M. Lindenberg. 8. Inside the Black Box: the Variety of Hierarchical Forms C. Menard. 9. Authority Relations in the Firm: Review and Agenda for Research G.K. Dow. 10. The Core of the Firm: the Issue of the Employer-Employee Relationship M. Turvani. 11. Transaction Cost Analysis - Is It Being Used Out of Context? K.J. Blois. 12. Opportunism, Learning and Organisational Evolution M. Dietrich. 13. Corporate Culture and the Nature of the Firm G.M. Hodgson. 14. Seven Reasons Why `Beyond' Transaction Costs Economics to Thesmoeconomics C. Pitelis. 15. After the Special Nature of the Firm: Beyond the Critics of Orthodox Neoclassical Economics E.L. Khalil. 16. Transaction Costs and Technological Learning P.R. Beije. 17. Towards a Learning Based Model of Transactions B. Nooteboom. 18. Transaction Acosts and Institutional Change L. Magnusson, J. Ottosson.19. A Case for Theoretical Pluralism J. Groenewegen, J.J. Vromen. List of Contributors. List of Tables and Figures. Index.