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Working Papers

2010

1. Autobiography
   Nobel Prize in Economics documents, Nobel Prize Committee

2009

2. Interview with Nobel Prize Laureates Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson
   Nobel Prize in Economics documents, Nobel Prize Committee
3. Transaction Cost Economics: The Natural Progression
   Nobel Prize in Economics documents, Nobel Prize Committee View citations (18)
   See also Journal Article Transaction Cost Economics: The Natural Progression, Journal of Retailing, Elsevier (2010) View citations (113) (2010)

2007

4. Transaction Cost Economics: An Introduction
   Economics Discussion Papers, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel) View citations (10)

1993

5. The Economic Analysis of Institutions and Organisations - in General and with Respect to Country Studies
   OECD Economics Department Working Papers, OECD Publishing View citations (19)

Journal Articles

2015

1. Ronald Harry Coase: institutional economist and institution builder
   Journal of Institutional Economics, 2015, 11, (2), 221-226 View citations (2)

2014

2. The Transaction Cost Economics Project
   Montenegrin Journal of Economics, 2014, 10, (1), 7-12 View citations (4)
   See also Book The Transaction Cost Economics Project, Books, 2013 (2013) View citations (15) (2013)

2010

3. Transaction Cost Economics: The Natural Progression
   Journal of Retailing, 2010, 86, (3), 215-226 View citations (113)
   Also in American Economic Review, 2010, 100, (3), 673-90 (2010) View citations (97)
   See also Working Paper Transaction Cost Economics: The Natural Progression, Nobel Prize in Economics documents (2009) View citations (18) (2009)
4. Transaction Cost Economics: The Origins
   Journal of Retailing, 2010, 86, (3), 227-231 View citations (10)

2009

5. Pragmatic methodology: a sketch, with applications to transaction cost economics
   Journal of Economic Methodology, 2009, 16, (2), 145-157 View citations (5)

2008

6. Corporate Boards of Directors: In Principle and in Practice
   The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2008, 24, (2), 247-272 View citations (17)
7. TRANSACTION COST ECONOMICS: THE PRECURSORS
   Economic Affairs, 2008, 28, (3), 7-14 View citations (7)
   See also Chapter Transaction Cost Economics: The Precursors, Chapters, 2009 (2009) (2009)

2005

8. The Economics of Governance
   American Economic Review, 2005, 95, (2), 1-18 View citations (155)
9. Transaction cost economics and business administration
   Scandinavian Journal of Management, 2005, 21, (1), 19-40 View citations (35)

2003

10. Examining economic organization through the lens of contract
    Industrial and Corporate Change, 2003, 12, (4), 917-942 View citations (18)

2002

11. The Lens of Contract: Private Ordering
    American Economic Review, 2002, 92, (2), 438-443 View citations (38)
12. The Theory of the Firm as Governance Structure: From Choice to Contract
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2002, 16, (3), 171-195 View citations (321)

2000

13. Contract and Economic Organization
    Revue d'Économie Industrielle, 2000, 92, (1), 55-66 View citations (6)
14. The New Institutional Economics: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead
    Journal of Economic Literature, 2000, 38, (3), 595-613 View citations (1655)
15. Utopia and Campaign Spending
    The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2000, 572, (1), 161-161

1999

16. Comparative Economic Organization—Within and Between Countries
    Business and Politics, 1999, 1, (3), 261-278 View citations (67)
    Also in Business and Politics, 1999, 1, (3), 261-277 (1999) View citations (54)
17. Public and Private Bureaucracies: A Transaction Cost Economics Perspective
    The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 1999, 15, (1), 306-42 View citations (182)
18. Strategy research: governance and competence perspectives
    Strategic Management Journal, 1999, 20, (12), 1087-1108 View citations (235)

1998

19. The Institutions of Governance
    American Economic Review, 1998, 88, (2), 75-79 View citations (103)

1996

20. Revisiting Legal Realism: The Law, Economics, and Organization Perspective
    Industrial and Corporate Change, 1996, 5, (2), 383-420 View citations (10)
21. Transaction cost economics and the Carnegie connection
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1996, 31, (2), 149-155 View citations (31)

1995

22. Hierarchies, Markets and Power in the Economy: An Economic Perspective
    Industrial and Corporate Change, 1995, 4, (1), 21-49 View citations (37)
23. Some uneasiness with the Coase Theorem: Comment
    Japan and the World Economy, 1995, 7, (1), 9-11 View citations (1)

1994

24. Evaluating Coase
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1994, 8, (2), 201-04 View citations (5)
25. Research Needs and Opportunities in Transaction Cost Economics
    International Journal of the Economics of Business, 1994, 1, (1), 45-46 View citations (8)
26. Visible and Invisible Governance
    American Economic Review, 1994, 84, (2), 323-26 View citations (14)

1993

27. Calculated Trust, A Reply
    Journal of Law and Economics, 1993, 36, (1), 501-02 View citations (6)
28. Calculativeness, Trust, and Economic Organization
    Journal of Law and Economics, 1993, 36, (1), 453-86 View citations (467)
29. Contested Exchange versus the Governance of Contractual Relations
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1993, 7, (1), 103-108 View citations (21)

1992

30. Markets, hierarchies, and the modern corporation: An unfolding perspective
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1992, 17, (3), 335-352 View citations (38)

1991

31. Economic Institutions: Spontaneous and Intentional Governance
    The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 1991, 7, 159-87 View citations (64)
32. Strategizing, economizing, and economic organization
    Strategic Management Journal, 1991, 12, (S2), 75-94 View citations (149)

1990

33. Political Institutions: The Neglected Side of the Story--Comment
    The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 1990, 6, 263-66 View citations (2)

1988

34. Technology and transaction cost economics: A reply
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1988, 10, (3), 355-363 View citations (24)
35. The Logic of Economic Organization
    The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 1988, 4, (1), 65-93 View citations (56)

1987

36. Transaction cost economics: The comparative contracting perspective
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1987, 8, (4), 617-625 View citations (34)

1986

37. Transforming Merger Policy: The Pound of New Perspectives
    American Economic Review, 1986, 76, (2), 114-19 View citations (6)

1985

38. Assessing Contract
    The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 1985, 1, (1), 177-208 View citations (9)
39. Asset specificity and economic organization
    International Journal of Industrial Organization, 1985, 3, (4), 365-378 View citations (171)
40. Employee ownership and internal governance: A perspective
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1985, 6, (3), 243-245 View citations (5)

1984

41. Credible Commitments: Further Remarks
    American Economic Review, 1984, 74, (3), 488-90 View citations (7)
42. The incentive limits of firms: A comparative institutional assessment of bureaucracy
    Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), 1984, 120, (4), 736-763 View citations (6)
    See also Chapter The Incentive Limits of Firms: A Comparative Institutional Assessment of Bureaucracy, International Economic Association Series, 1986, 204-237 (1986) (1986)

1983

43. Credible Commitments: Using Hostages to Support Exchange
    American Economic Review, 1983, 73, (4), 519-40 View citations (507)
44. Organization Form, Residual Claimants, and Corporate Control
    Journal of Law and Economics, 1983, 26, (2), 351-66 View citations (67)
45. Technology and the organization of work: A rejoinder
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1983, 4, (1), 67-68 View citations (1)
46. Technology and the organization of work: A reply to Jones
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1983, 4, (1), 57-62 View citations (1)

1981

47. The Modern Corporation: Origins, Evolution, Attributes
    Journal of Economic Literature, 1981, 19, (4), 1537-68 View citations (238)
48. The organization of work: Reply
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1981, 2, (3), 281-283 View citations (1)

1980

49. The organization of work a comparative institutional assessment
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1980, 1, (1), 5-38 View citations (39)

1979

50. Transaction-Cost Economics: The Governance of Contractural Relations
    Journal of Law and Economics, 1979, 22, (2), 233-61 View citations (1614)

1978

51. Obligational Markets and the Mechanics of Inflation
    Bell Journal of Economics, 1978, 9, (2), 549-571 View citations (4)

1977

52. J. Michael Montias' The Structure of Economic Systems
    Bell Journal of Economics, 1977, 8, (2), 620-623

1976

53. Franchise Bidding for Natural Monopolies -- in General and with Respect to CATV
    Bell Journal of Economics, 1976, 7, (1), 73-104 View citations (198)
54. The Economics of Internal Organization: Exit and Voice in Relation to Markets and Hierarchies
    American Economic Review, 1976, 66, (2), 369-77 View citations (22)

1975

55. Evolution of International Management Structures. Edited by Harold F. Williamson. Newark, Del., University of Delaware Press, 1975. Pp. xii + 254. $20.00
    Business History Review, 1975, 49, (4), 507-509
56. Understanding the Employment Relation: The Analysis of Idiosyncratic Exchange
    Bell Journal of Economics, 1975, 6, (1), 250-278 View citations (139)

1974

57. Peak-Load Pricing: Some Further Remarks
    Bell Journal of Economics, 1974, 5, (1), 223-228 View citations (1)

1973

58. Markets and Hierarchies: Some Elementary Considerations
    American Economic Review, 1973, 63, (2), 316-25 View citations (189)

1971

59. The Vertical Integration of Production: Market Failure Considerations
    American Economic Review, 1971, 61, (2), 112-23 View citations (444)

1969

60. Allocative Efficiency and the Limits of Antitrust
    American Economic Review, 1969, 59, (2), 105-18 View citations (4)
61. Economies as an Antitrust Defense: Reply
    American Economic Review, 1969, 59, (5), 954-59 View citations (6)

1968

62. Wage Rates as a Barrier to Entry: The Pennington Case in Perspective
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1968, 82, (1), 85-116 View citations (62)

1967

63. A rational theory of the federal budgeting process
    Public Choice, 1967, 2, (1), 71-89
64. Hierarchical Control and Optimum Firm Size
    Journal of Political Economy, 1967, 75, (2), 123 View citations (323)

1965

65. A Dynamic Theory of Interfirm Behavior
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1965, 79, (4), 579-607 View citations (5)

1963

66. Selling Expensse as a Barrier to Entry
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1963, 77, (1), 112-128 View citations (5)

Books

2013

1. The Transaction Cost Economics Project
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing View citations (15)
   See also Journal Article The Transaction Cost Economics Project, Montenegrin Journal of Economics, Economic Laboratory for Transition Research (ELIT) (2014) View citations (4) (2014)

1999

2. The Mechanisms of Governance
   OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (25)

Edited books

1995

1. TRANSACTION COST ECONOMICS, vol Two volume set
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing View citations (35)

1993

2. The Nature of the Firm: Origins, Evolution, and Development
   OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (73)

1990

3. Industrial Organization
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing View citations (8)

Undated

4. The Economics of Transaction Costs
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing View citations (148)

Chapters

2025

1. Transaction Cost Economics
   Springer
   Also in Springer (2005) View citations (75)
   A chapter in : The Handbook of Organizational Economics, 2012 (2012) View citations (21)
   Chapter 03 in Handbook of Industrial Organization, 1989, vol. 1, pp 135-182 (1989) View citations (251)
   Springer (2008) View citations (138)

2016

2. The transaction cost economics project: origins, evolution, utilization
   Chapter 3 in The Elgar Companion to Ronald H. Coase, 2016, pp 34-42 View citations (2)

2014

3. Interdisciplinary Social Science: The Transaction Cost Economics Project
   Palgrave Macmillan View citations (2)

2011

4. Corporate Governance: A Contractual and Organizational Perspective
   Palgrave Macmillan View citations (1)

2010

5. Transaction Cost Economics: An Overview
   Chapter 2 in The Elgar Companion to Transaction Cost Economics, 2010 View citations (1)

2009

6. Opening the Black Box of Firm and Market Organization: Antitrust
   Chapter 2 in The Modern Firm, Corporate Governance and Investment, 2009 View citations (1)
7. Transaction Cost Economics: The Precursors
   Chapter 1 in Regulation, Deregulation, Reregulation, 2009
   See also Journal Article TRANSACTION COST ECONOMICS: THE PRECURSORS, Wiley Blackwell (2008) View citations (7) (2008)

2008

8. Corporate Boards of Directors: A Precautionary Perspective
   Chapter 4 in The Economics of Corporate Governance and Mergers, 2008

2000

9. Ronald Harry Coase: international economist/institutional builder
   Chapter 6 in Institutions, Contracts and Organizations, 2000 View citations (4)

1987

10. Kenneth Arrow and the New Institutional Economics
    Palgrave Macmillan

1986

11. The Incentive Limits of Firms: A Comparative Institutional Assessment of Bureaucracy
    Palgrave Macmillan
    See also Journal Article The incentive limits of firms: A comparative institutional assessment of bureaucracy, Springer (1984) View citations (6) (1984)

1984

12. Efficient Labour Organization
    Palgrave Macmillan View citations (8)

1972

13. Antitrust Enforcement and the Modern Corporation
    A chapter in Economic Research: Retrospect and Prospect, Volume 3, Policy Issues and Research Opportunities in Industrial Organization, 1972, pp 16-33 View citations (1)
14. Managerial Discretion Models
    Palgrave Macmillan

1971

15. Managerial Discretion, Organization Form, and the Multi-division Hypothesis
    Palgrave Macmillan View citations (2)

1970

16. Administrative Decision Making and Pricing: Externality and Compensation Analysis Applied
    A chapter in The Analysis of Public Output, 1970, pp 115-138 View citations (2)

1967

17. The Economics of Defense Contracting: Incentives and Performance
    A chapter in Issues in Defense Economics, 1967, pp 217-278 View citations (26)