The Birth of the Concept of Transaction Costs: Issues and Controversies

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 567-593

  Klaes, Matthias ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0041773172     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/9.4.567     Document Type: Article

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