The legacy of Chester I. Barnard in the science of organisation of Oliver E. Williamson

Virgile Chassagnon, Bernard Baudry () and Naciba Haned
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Bernard Baudry: TRIANGLE - Triangle : action, discours, pensée politique et économique - ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - IEP Lyon - Sciences Po Lyon - Institut d'études politiques de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Naciba Haned: ESSCA - ESSCA – École supérieure des sciences commerciales d'Angers = ESSCA Business School, CREG - Centre de recherche en économie de Grenoble - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes

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Abstract: Chester Barnard was an American manager and public administrator who greatly influenced economics and the history of economic thought. Oliver Williamson's early works were published after Barnard's death, but the intellectual proximity they show to Herbert Simon, along with the significant influence of John Commons on their analysis, brings them closer. This study investigates Barnard legacy (particularly his work in 1938) in Williamson's "science of organisation" project by analysing the Barnardian origins of his organisational micro-approach from their complementary theories of cooperation.

Keywords: Chester I. Barnard; Oliver E. Williamson; Cooperation; Science of Organisation; History of Economic Thought (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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Published in European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2022, 29 (3), pp.480-504. ⟨10.1080/09672567.2021.2019295⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/09672567.2021.2019295

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