Toward a Unified Transaction Cost Theory of Economic Organization

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics

Volumn 159, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 571-593

  Davis, Lewis S ^a  

^a SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0242592993     PISSN: 09324569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1628/0932456032954701     Document Type: Article

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