Transaction Cost Economics

Author : Michael Dietrich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134909837
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transaction Cost Economics and Beyond written by Michael Dietrich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-01-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years transaction cost economics have come to dominate the discussion of the nature and organization of firms. In Transaction Costs Economics and Beyond Michael Dietrich offers a critical exploration of transaction costs. He argues that whilst they have much to offer, they are still an inadequate basis for a general theory of the firm. Drawing on theories of organizational behaviour as well as economics, he concludes by offering a theory of the firm that allows for both hierarchical and creative decision making.

Author : Oliver E. Williamson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780857938770
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transaction Cost Economics Project written by Oliver E. Williamson and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transaction cost economics has and continues to be a fruitful area of research. There is still much to be done in the field with past research being used in conjunction with the vast number of contractual phenomena that have yet to be investigated in transaction cost economics terms. New challenges are posed by the need to move beyond the design of new contractual instruments (such as financial derivatives) to include an examination of the lurking hazards that attend contract implementation.

Author : Oliver E. Williamson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economics of Transaction Costs written by Oliver E. Williamson and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transaction cost economics began to take shape around 1970 and has since been established as an essential tool used to illuminate a wide range of problems in economics and other social sciences. This reader presents articles which together form the foundations of research in transaction cost economics.

Author : Peter G. Klein
Publisher : Edward Elgar Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781845427665
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elgar Companion to Transaction Cost Economics written by Peter G. Klein and published by Edward Elgar Pub. This book was released on 2010 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Not too long ago it was possible to be familiar with all of the important works and latest developments in transaction cost economics. That that is no longer the case is a testament to the intellectual appeal and empirical success of the transaction cost approach. for newcomers, the entries in this volume, by some of TCE's most knowledgeable and eloquent contributors, offer an excellent introduction to the issues, methods, discoveries, and debates in the field; for veterans, the volume provides a highly valuable resource for catching up on the newest research.' - Scott E. Masten, University of Michigan School of Business, US

Author : George Z. Peng
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303046878X
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward Behavioral Transaction Cost Economics written by George Z. Peng and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adopting a critical realist position, this book renders transaction cost economics (TCE) into a behavioral theory of organizational decision-making by foregrounding psychological processes and introducing and integrating with effectuation theory. Consistent with its behavioral agenda, the book introduces the concept of uncertainty controllability and provides a clearer conceptualization and a novel modeling strategy of bounded rationality based on the conceptual separation of cognitive bounds from psychological ‘rationalizing.’ The book inspires new insights into the significance of cultural distance (CD). Based on the understanding that culture is socially-extended cognition, the author re-conceptualizes CD as reflecting cognitive bounds, and uses the biases arising from CD to contextualize effectuation and deepen the flat ontology of both TCE and effectuation theory. The book presents a full two-sided behavioral framework of organizational decision-making, with behavioral TCE and behavioral real options theory complementing each other to complete the full behavioral picture. Both sides are further linked to organizational learning, which reduces biases over time and thus drives governance structures toward more rational directions. The full framework uses prospect theory as the overarching theory that determines which side of the behavioral framework is relevant for the uncertainty of concern based on the different problem frames resulting from different degrees of uncertainty controllability. Because effectuation can take place on both sides of the framework based on competing risk logics, prospect theory serves to harmonize inconsistencies in the effectuation literature as a side note. This book applies the behavioral TCE side of the framework to the study of MNC subsidiary ownership decision-making process using a dataset of over 10,000 Japanese subsidiaries founded in 43 host countries. It concludes with a discussion of implications and future directions for TCE in general and international business in particular.

Author : Dennis P. Kehoe
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472119605
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Transaction Costs in the Ancient Economy written by Dennis P. Kehoe and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical element of economic performance from antiquity to the present

Author : P. Rao
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230597688
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economics of Transaction Costs written by P. Rao and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-12-03 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In modern economies a substantial proportion of resources is increasingly allocated to transaction costs. An improvement in the definition of transaction costs to include both the information role and efficiency role requires an integration of the approaches of positive economics and normative economics. In The Economics of Transaction Costs P.K.Rao provides a comprehensive analytical treatment of the subject and suggests a few directions for formal economic models.

Author : Oliver E Williamson
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9813202076
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contract, Governance and Transaction Cost Economics written by Oliver E Williamson and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a collection of seven papers on Transaction Cost Economics by Nobel Laureate Professor Oliver E Williamson. The applications of Transaction Cost Economics are extensive, ranging from the field of industrial organization and applied fields of economics such as labor, public finance, comparative economic systems and economic development, to the business fields of strategy, organizational behavior, marketing, finance, operations management, and accounting. In short, as Williamson states, "any problem that originates as or can be reformulated as a contracting problem can be examined to advantage in transaction cost economizing terms." What is referred to as New Institutional Economics is developed in the West in two mainly complementary ways: Property Rights Theory, and Transaction Cost Economics. Of the two, Property Rights Theory developed more rapidly. Transaction Cost Economics has nonetheless taken shape of late. In China, research on New Institutional Economics began in the 1990s and has grown rapidly since. China has similarly given much more attention to Property Rights Theory. Gengxuan Chen, the editor of this volume, recommends that China will benefit by bringing Transaction Cost Economics to bear. Simultaneously, for scholars who study the market economy, Transaction Cost Economics provides a very attractive way to explain the practice of the Chinese market economy.

Author : Avinash K. Dixit
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262540988
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of Economic Policy written by Avinash K. Dixit and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1998-09-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Making of Economic Policy begins by observing that most countries' trade policies are so blatantly contrary to all the prescriptions of the economist that there is no way to understand this discrepancy except by delving into the politics. The same is true for many other dimensions of economic policy. Avinash Dixit looks for an improved understanding of the politics of economic policy-making from a transaction cost perspective. Such costs of planning, implementing, and monitoring an exchange have proved critical to explaining many phenomena in industrial organization. Dixit discusses the variety of similar transaction costs encountered in the political process of making economic policy and how these costs affect the operation of different institutions and policies. Dixit organizes a burgeoning body of research in political economy in this framework. He uses U.S. fiscal policy and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) as two examples that illustrate the framework, and show how policy often deviates from the economist's ideal of efficiency. The approach reveals, however, that some seemingly inefficient practices are quite creditable attempts to cope with transaction costs such as opportunism and asymmetric information. Copublished with the Center for Economic Studies and the Ifo Institute

Author : Glenn R. Carroll
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195353196
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Firms, Markets and Hierarchies written by Glenn R. Carroll and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-28 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines transaction cost economics, the influential theoretical perspective on organizations and industry that was the subject of Oliver Williamson's seminal book,Markets and Hierarchies (1975). Written by leading economists, sociologists, and political scientists, the essays collected here reflect the fruitful intellectual exchange that is occurring across the major social science disciplines. They examine transaction cost economics' general conceptual orientation, its specific theoretical propositions, its applications to policy, and its use in systematic empirical research. The chapters include classic texts, broad review essays, reflective commentaries, and several new contributions to a wide range of topics, including organizations, regulations and law, institutions, strategic management, game theory, entrepreneurship, innovation, finance, and technical information. The book begins with an overview of theory and research on transaction cost economics, highlighting the specific accomplishments of scholars working within the perspective and emphasizing the enormous influence that transaction cost reasoning exerts on the social sciences. The following section covers conceptual uses for the transaction cost framework and major theoretical or methodological elements within it, such as bounded rationality. While advancing some interesting theoretical propositions, these chapters are in fact more ambitious: each examines a specific field, area, or research program and attempts to fashion a new way of thinking about research questions. In the section on industrial applications, contributors study the application of transaction cost theory to a range of problems in utilities, telecommunications, laser printing, and early international trade. The book closes with four microanalytical chapters that delve into the structures and behaviors of specific aspects of firms and organizations: boards of directors, equity structures, employment models, human resource policies and practices, technology strategies, and innovation events. Firms, Markets, and Hierarchies collects excellent social science work on transaction cost economics, taking stock of its status, charting its future development, and fostering its renewal and evolution.