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| Preface to the College Edition | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Toward n New Institutional Economics | |
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| Some Antecedents | |
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| A Preliminary Statement of the Organizational Failures Framework | |
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| Three Illustrations | |
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| The Organizational Failures Framework | |
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| Bounded Rationality and Uncertainty/Complexity | |
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| Opportunism and Small Numbers | |
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| Information Impactedness | |
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| Atmosphere | |
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| Summary Remarks | |
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| Peer Groups and Simple Hierarchies | |
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| Understanding the Employment Relation | |
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| Remarks on the Labor Economics Literature | |
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| Technology: Conventional and Idiosyncratic Considerations | |
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| Individualistic Bargaining Models | |
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| The Efficiency Implications of Internal Labor Market Structures | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Intermediate Product Markets and Vertical Integration | |
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| Prior Literature: A Transactional Interpretation | |
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| Static Markets | |
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| Sales Contracts for Component Supply | |
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| Unified Ownership of Plant and Equipment: Simple Hierarchy Extended | |
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| Complex Hierarchy: The Employment Relation Extended | |
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| Forward Integration into Wholesaling | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Vertical Integration, II: Some Qualifications | |
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| Interfirm Exchange: Some Qualifications | |
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| Possible or Purported Antisocial Consequences | |
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| Antitrust Implications | |
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| Limits of Vertical Integration and Firm Size | |
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| Internalizing the Incremental Transaction: Some Disabilities | |
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| Size Considerations | |
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| Incentive Limits of the Employment Relation | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| The Multidivisional Structure | |
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| The Unitary Form Enterprise | |
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| Organizational Innovation: The Multidivisional Structure | |
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| Competition in the Capital Market | |
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| Optimum Divisionalization | |
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| The "M-form hypothesis" and Concluding Remarks | |
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| Classification Scheme | |
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| Conglomerate Organization | |
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| The Affirmative Emphasis | |
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| Competition in the Capital Market | |
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| Public Policy Issues | |
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| Some Evidence | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Market Structure in Relation to Technical and Organizational Innovation | |
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| Technical Innovation and Market Structure: The Conventional Dichotomy | |
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| Technical Innovation and Market Structure: Refinements | |
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| Organizational Innovation and Market Structure | |
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| A Systems Approach | |
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| Dominant Firms and the Monopoly Problem | |
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| The Current Approach to Unlawful Monopolization | |
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| A Market Failure Interpretation of Dominance | |
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| Government Intervention and Market Failure | |
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| Remedies for Structural Dominance | |
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| Application to the Structure-Conduct Controversy | |
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| Dominant Firms and the Organizational Failures Framework | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Oligopoly: Interfirm versus Intrafirm Organization | |
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| Some Antecedents | |
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| Oligopoly Regarded as a Problem of Contracting | |
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| The Contracting Approach and Prior Treatments Contrasted | |
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| Policy Implications: Dominant Firms versus Oligopolistic Interdependence | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Toward a Transactional Paradigm | |
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| The Organizational Failures Framework and Hierarchy | |
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| Antitrust Implications | |
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| Some Directions for Future Research | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |