The current state of the economic theory of the firm: Contractual, competence-based, and beyond

The Firm as an Entity: Implications for Economics, Accounting and the Law

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 21-53

  Weinstein, Olivier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

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