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Mihai-Vladimir TOPAN

Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti

After Ronald Coase, the theory of the firm has maintained in various forms the market/firm distinction. The majority of subsequent transaction cost based theories of the firm provide little more than a particular interpretation of transaction costs (as agency costs, opportunism, team costs, surveillance costs etc.). The concept becomes so broad as to amount to a rediscovery and reconceptualization of the traditional general concept of „cost”. In the present author’s opinion, Oliver E. Williamson’s main contributions fit into this description.

ŒCONOMICA no. 4/2009

Keywords: labour market, unemployment, emigration, transaction costs, markets, firms, hierarchies, new institutional economics, Oliver Williamson

Teoria firmei după Coase: perspectiva bazată pe costurile tranzacţionale (Oliver E. Williamson)

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