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Authors: Michael Dietrich
ISBN-13: 9780415071550, ISBN-10: 0415071550
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: April 1994
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Michael Dietrich

Book Synopsis

In recent years transaction costs economics have come to dominate the discussion of the nature and organization of firms. In Transaction Costs Economics and Beyond Michael Driscoll 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.

Table of Contents

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Preface
1Introduction1
2The Transaction Cost Paradigm15
3A General Framework31
4The Development of the Firm51
5Related Integration and the Firm67
6Unrelated Integration and the Firm83
7Quasi-Integration and the Firm100
8The Firm and Economic Theory119
9The Firm as a System137
10Economic Policy and the Firm156
11Conclusions174
Notes182
Bibliography191
Author index207
Subject index211

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