Preface To The Paperback Edition |
Preface |
Prologue |
Antecedents from the 1930s / 1: |
The Next Thirty Years / 2: |
An Overview / 3: |
Transaction Cost Economics / Chapter 1: |
Transaction Costs |
A Cognitive Map of Contract |
The World of Contract |
A Simple Contracting Schema / 4: |
Economic Organization of the Company Town / 5: |
Applications / 6: |
Concluding Remarks / 7: |
Contractual Man / Chapter 2: |
Behavioral Assumptions |
Dimensions |
The Fundamental Transformation |
Appendix: Opportunism: A Digression |
The Governance of Contractual Relations / Chapter 3: |
Contracting Traditions |
Efficient Governance |
Uncertainty |
Measurement |
The Distribution of Transactions |
Vertical Integration: Theory and Policy / Chapter 4: |
Technological Determinism |
A Heuristic Model |
Further Implications |
Vertical Merger Guidelines |
Vertical Integration: Some Evidence / Chapter 5: |
Types of Evidence |
Mundane Integration |
Forward Integration into Distribution |
Lateral Integration |
Backward Integration |
Some Remarks About Japanese Manufacture |
Some Alternative Explanations |
The Limits of Firms: Incentive and Bureaucratic Features / 8: |
A Chronic Puzzle |
Integration of an Owner-Managed Supply Stage |
Acquisition of a Supply Stage in Which Ownership and Management Are Separated |
The Costs of Bureaucracy |
Low-Powered Incentives in Markets |
Illustrative Examples |
Credible Commitments I: Unilateral Applications / Chapter 7: |
Private Ordering |
Credible Commitments |
The Hostage Model |
Engaging the Supplier |
Unilateral Trading Applications |
Schwinn |
Credible Commitments II: Bilateral Applications / Chapter 8: |
Reciprocity |
The Hostage Model Extended |
Petroleum Exchanges |
The Organization of Work / Chapter 9: |
The Radical Account of Hierarchy |
Transaction Cost Aspects |
A Comparative Institutional Framework |
A Comparative Institutional Assessment |
Power Versus Efficiency |
The Organization of Labor / Chapter 10: |
Central Issues |
An Abstract Approach |
Union Organization |
Problematic Features of Union Organization |
The Producer Cooperative Dilemma |
Dignity |
The Modern Corporation / Chapter 11: |
Railroad Organization |
The M-Form Innovation |
Applications: Conglomerate and Multinational Enterprise |
Corporate Governance / Chapter 12: |
Background |
A Contractual Assessment |
Management as a Constituency |
Managerial Discretion and Organization Form |
Franchise Bidding for Natural Monopoly / Chapter 13: |
Introduction |
The Simple Franchise Bidding Scheme |
Franchise Bidding Elaborated |
A Case Study |
Appendix: The Oakland CATV Franchise Bidding Experience |
Antitrust Enforcement / Chapter 14: |
Merger Policy |
Nonstandard Contracting |
Strategic Behavior |
Unresolved Dilemmas |
Conclusions / Chapter 15: |
Economics |
Law |
Organization |
Postscript |
Bibliography |
Author Index |
Subject Index |
Preface To The Paperback Edition |
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