book: Foss.2000.The Theory Of The Firm

Foss Nicolai J 1964

2000.The Theory Of The Firm : Critical Perspectives On Business And Management / edited By Nicolai J. Foss.

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(4-Volume Set)

Table of Contents

Overviews of the field:

Boulding, Kenneth E. 1942, "The Theory of the Firm in the Last Ten Years," American Economic Review 32: 791 - 802.

Papandreou, Andreas 1952 "Some Basic Problems in the Theory of the Firm" in B. F. Haley ed. 1952. A Survey of Contemporary Economics Homewood:

Richard D. Irwin. Machlup, Fritz 1967 "Theories of the Firm: Marginalist, Behavioural, Managerial," American Economic Review57: 1-33.

McNulty, Paul J. 1984, "On the Nature and Theory of Economic Organisation: The Role of the Firm Reconsidered," History of Political Economy 16: 233-253.

Moss, Scott 1984 "The History of the Theory of the Firm from Marshall to Robinson and Chamberlain: the Source of Positivism in Economics,"Economica 51:307 - 318.

Milgrom, Paul J. and John D. Roberts 1988, "Economic Theories of the Firm: Past, Present and Future," Canadian Journal of Economics 21: 444-458.

Hart, Oliver D. 1989 "An Economist's Perspective on the Theory of the Firm," Columbia Law Review 89(7):1757-1774.

Holmstrom, Bengt and Jean Tirole 1989 "The Theory of the Firm," in Richard Schmalensee and Robert D Willig 1989 Handbook of Industrial Organisation, Vol. 1 Amsterdam: North Holland.


II. The nexus of contracts review


Alchian, Armen A. and Harold Demsetz, 1972, "Production, Information Costs, and Economic Organisation," American Economic Review 62(5):772-795.

Jensen, Michael C. and William Meckling 1976 "The Theory of the Firm: Managerial, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure."

Fama, Eugene, 1980, "Agency Problems and the Theory of the Firm" Journal of Political Economy 88:288-307.

Cheung, Steven S.N. 1983, "The Contractual Nature of the Firm" Journal of Law and Economics 26:1-22.

Fama, Eugene and Michael Jensen 1983, "Agency Problems and Residual Claims," Journal of Law and Economics 26 (June): 327-49.

Barzel, Yoram 1997, "The Old Firm and the New Organisation" chapter 5 from Economic Analysis of Property Rights, 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Jensen, Michael and William Meckling 1992, "Specific and General Knowledge and Organisational Structure," in Lars Werin and Hans Wijkander, eds 1992. Contract Economics Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

III. Formal Agency Work

Hart, Oliver and Bengt Holmstrom 1987, "The Theory of Contracts" in Truman F. Bewley 1987, Advances in Economic Theory. Fifth World Congress Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ross, Stephen, 1973, "The Economic Theory of Agency: The Principal's Problem."American Economic Review 63: 134-139.

Holmstrom, Bengt 1979, "Moral Hazard and Observability", Bell Journal of Economics 10: 74-91.

Holmstrom, Bengt, 1982, "Moral Hazard in Teams" Bell Journal of Economics 13: 324-340.

Holmstrom, Bengt and Paul Milgrom, 1991, "Multi-task Principal-Agent Analyses: Incentive Contracts, Asset Ownership and Job Design" Journal of Law, Economics and Organisation 7:24-52.

Holmstrom, Bengt and Paul Milgrom, 1994, "The Firm as an Incentive System" American Economic Review 84: 972-991.

Lewis, Tracy and David Sappington 1991, "Technological Change and the Boundaries of the Firm" American Economic Review 81: 887-900.

Aghion, Philippe and Jean Tirole, 1997, "Formal and Real Authority in Organisation" Journal of Political Economy 105:1-29.

IV Incomplete Contracts: The Coordination Perspective

Coase, Ronald H. 1937, "The Nature of the Firm", Economica (N.S.) 4:386-405 (November). Malmgren, Harold B., 1961, "Information, Expectations and the Theory of the Firm" Quarterly Journal of Economics 75: 399-421. Simon, Herbert A. 1951, "A Formal Theory of the Employment Relationship" Econometrica 19:293-305. Loasby, Brian J. 1994, "Organisational Capabilities and Interfirm Relations", Metroeconomica 45: 248-265. Wernerfelt, Birger 1997, "On the Nature and Scope of the Firm: an adjustment Cost Theory",

Note: Hart.1990

edition 1

Hart.1990.an economist's perspective on the theory of the firm
in Williamson.1990.organization theory. P154-171

edition 2
Hart, Oliver D. 1989 "An Economist's Perspective on the Theory of the Firm," Columbia Law Review 89(7):1757-1774.

1)
Williamson.1988.the logic of economic organization. Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 4, pp. 65-94 .


2)
Milgrom, Paul J. and John D. Roberts 1988, "Economic Theories of the Firm: Past, Present and Future," Canadian Journal of Economics 21: 444-458.


3)
Holmstrom, Bengt and Jean Tirole 1989 "The Theory of the Firm," in Richard Schmalensee and Robert D Willig 1989 Handbook of Industrial Organisation, Vol. 1 Amsterdam: North Holland.