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Zusatztext "The Mechanisms of Governance is...a valuable summing up of both an especially influential body of work and the career of a great economist."--Business History Review Informationen zum Autor Oliver E. Williamson is the Edgar F. Kaiser Professor of Business, Professor of Economics, and Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of numerous works in which law, economics, and organization are joined. Klappentext Management. This book brings together in one place the work of one of our most respected economic theorists on a field in which he has played a large part in originating: the New Institutional Economics. Transaction cost economics, which studies the governance of contractual relations, is the branch of the New Institutional Economics with which Oliver Williamson is especially associated. Transaction cost economics has had a pervasive influence on current economic thought about how and why institutions function as they do, and it has become a practical framework for research in organizations by representatives of a variety of disciplines. Through a transaction cost analysis, The Mechanisms of Governance shows how and why simple contracts give way to complex contracts and internal organization as the hazards of contracting build up. Zusammenfassung This book brings together in one place the work of one of the most respected economic theorists, on a field which he has played a large part in originating: the New Institutional Economics. Transaction cost economics, which Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue PART I: OVERVIEW 2: Chester Barnard and the Incipient Science of Organization 3: Transaction Cost Economics PART II: CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS 4: Comparative Economic Organization: The Analysis of Discrete Strucutural Alternatives 5: Credible Commitments: Using Hostages to Support Exchange 6: Economic Institutions: Spontaneous and Intentional Governance 7: Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance 8: The Politics and Economics of Redistribution and Inefficiency PART III: ORGANIZATIONS 9: Transaction Cost Economics and Organization Theory 10: Calculativeness, Trust, and Economic Organization PART IV: PUBLIC POLICY 11: Delimiting Antitrust 12: Strategizing, Economizing, and Economic Organization 13: The Institutions and Governance of Economic Development and Reform PART V: CONTROVERSY AND PERSPECTIVES 14: Transaction Cost Economics Meets Posnerian Law and Economics 15: Transaction Cost Economics and the Evolving Science of Organization Glossary ...
