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Oliver E. Williamson
Researcher at University of California, Berkeley
Publications - 193
Citations - 120860
Oliver E. Williamson is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Transaction cost & Corporate governance. The author has an hindex of 80, co-authored 191 publications receiving 117766 citations. Previous affiliations of Oliver E. Williamson include University of California & University of Pennsylvania.
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Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and Antitrust Implications.
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Transaction-Cost Economics: The Governance of Contractual Relations
TL;DR: For instance, the authors argues that if transaction costs are negligible, the organization of economic activity is irrelevant, since any advantages one mode of organization appears to hold over another will simply be eliminated by costless contracting.
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Comparative Economic Organization: The Analysis of Discrete Structural Alternatives
TL;DR: Williamson as discussed by the authors combines institutional economics with aspects of contract law and organization theory to identify and explicate the key differences that distinguish three generic forms of economic organization-market, hybrid, and hierarchy.
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The Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach
TL;DR: The transaction cost approach to the study of economic organization regards the transaction as the basic unit of analysis and holds that an understanding of transaction cost economizing is central to the analysis of organizations as mentioned in this paper.