Economics and Organization: A Primer

California Management Review

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 131-146

  Williamson, Oliver E ^a  

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DOI: 10.2307/41165836     Document Type: Article

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3. Herbert Simon, “Theories of Decision Making in Economics and Behavioral Science,” American Economic Review, 49 (June 1959): 253-258
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5. Richard M. Cyert and James G. March, A Behavioral Theory of the Firm (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1963).
6. Joe Bain, Industrial Organization, 2nd ed. (New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons, 1968), p. 381.
7. Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy (New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1962), p. 52.
8. George Getschow, “Loss of Expert Talent Impedes Oil Finding By New Tenneco Unit,” Wall Street Journal February 9, 1982.
9. Quoted in International Herald Tribune, “Soviet Economic Development,” June 5, 1990, p. 5.
10. George J. Stigler, “Law or Economics?” Journal of Law and Economics, 35 (October 1992): 459. Note, however, that Stigler takes vigorous exception with this interpretation.
11. R. C. O. Matthews, “The Economics of Institutions and the Sources of Economic Growth,” Economic Journal 96 (December 1986): 903-918.
12. Ronald H. Coase, “The Regulated Industries: Discussion,” American Economic Review, 54 (May 1964): 195.
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15. Tjalling Koopmans, Three Essays on the State of Economic Science (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1957), p. 145.
16. Peter Klein and Howard Shelanski, “Empirical Research in Transaction Cost Economics: A Review and Assessment,” Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 11 (1995).
17. Marc Galanter, “Justice in Many Rooms: Courts, Private Ordering and Indigenous Law,” Journal of Legal Pluralism, 19 (1981): 1.
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19. Brief for the United States at 26, United States v. Arnold, Schwinn & Co., 388 U.S. 365 (1967).
20. Oliver E. Williamson, “Assessing Vertical Market Restrictions,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 127 (April 1979): 953-993.
21. The Supreme Court reversed this result in Continental TV Inc. etal. v. GTE Sylvania Inc. 433 U.S. 36 (1977).
22. David J. Teece, “Profiting From Technological Innovation,” Research Policy, 15 (December 1986): 285-305.
23. Oliver E. Williamson, The Economic Institutions of Capitalism (New York, NY: Free Press, 1985), Chapter 6.
24. The puzzle was first posed in the 1920s by Frank Knight, Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit (New York, NY: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1965)
25. Stigler, “Law or Economics?” Journal of Law and Economics, 35 (October 1992), pp. 455-468.
26. Terry Moe, “The Politics of Structural Choice: Toward a Theory of Public Bureaucracy,” in Oliver Williamson, ed., Organization Theory (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1990), pp. 116-153.
27. Oliver E. Williamson, The Mechanisms of Governance (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1995), Chapter 8.
28. Kenneth J. Arrow, Essays in the Theory of Risk-Bearing (Chicago, IL: Markham, 1971), p. 224.