Beyond markets and hierarchies: an economic analysis of vertical quasi-integration

Virgile Chassagnon

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Abstract: The industrial dynamics of capitalism are linked to transformations in organizational forms of production. We have moved from the integrated traditional firm described by Chandler to the disintegrated modern firm. These new trends in the industrial world, which occurred in the 1980s and 1990s, have led firms to interfirm cooperation and vertical quasi-integration. The aim of the paper is to examine these issues from an economic analysis methodology. The paper gives attention to three authors who developed their own approach in the second half of the XXth century: Williamson, Houssiaux and Blois.

Keywords: vertical quasi-integration; network-firm inter-firm; cooperation inter-firm; power; Oliver E. Williamson; Jacques Houssiaux; Keith J. Blois (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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Published in Revue de Philosophie Economique / Review of Economic Philosophy, 2014, 15 (1), pp.135-165

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