The mechanisms of governance /

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Main Author: Williamson, Oliver E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: the mechanisms of governance
  • I. Overview
  • Transaction cost economics and the Carnegie Connection
  • Chester Barnard and the incipient science of organization
  • Transaction cost economics
  • II. Concepts and applications
  • Comparative economic organization: the analysis of discrete structural alternatives
  • Credible commitments: using hostages to support exchange
  • Economic institutions: spontaneous and intentional governance
  • Corporate finance and corporate governance
  • The politics and economics of redistribution and inefficiency
  • III. Organizations
  • Transaction cost economics and organization theory
  • Calculativeness, trust, and economic organization
  • IV. Public policy
  • Delimiting antitrust
  • Strategizing, economizing, and economic organization
  • The institutions and governance of economic development and reform
  • V. Controversy and perspectives
  • Transaction cost economics and the evolving science of organization.