The Elgar companion to transaction cost economics/ Edited by Peter G. Klein, Michael Sykuta

Contents:PART I: INTRODUCTION1. Editors' IntroductionPeter G. Klein and Michael E. Sykuta2. Transaction Cost Economics: An OverviewOliver E. Williamson3. Transaction Cost Economics and the New Institutional EconomicsPeter G. KleinPART II: PRECURSORS AND INFLUENCES4. Ronald H. CoaseMichael E. Sykuta5. Cyert, March, and the Carnegie SchoolMie Augier6. Chester BarnardJoseph T. Mahoney7. Commons, Hurst, Macaulay, and the Wisconsin Legal TraditionD. Gordon Smith8. F.A. HayekPeter G. Klein9. Herbert SimonSaras Sarasvathy10. Property Rights EconomicsNicolai J. FossPART III: FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS11. The Costs of ExchangeAlexandra Benham and Lee Benham12. Asset Specificity and HoldupsBenjamin Klein13. The Transaction as the Unit of AnalysisNicholas Argyres14. Bounded Rationality and Organizational EconomicsNicolai J. Foss15. Economizing and StrategizingJackson A. Nickerson and James C. Yen16. Empirical Methods in Transaction Cost EconomicsMichael E. SykutaPART IV: APPLICATIONS17. Vertical IntegrationPeter G. Klein18. Hybrid OrganizationsClaude Menard19. FranchisingSteven C. Michael20. The Structure of Franchise ContractsEmmanuel Raynaud21. Strategy and Transaction CostsLaura Poppo22. Labour Economics and Human Resource ManagementBruce A. Rayton23. The Chicago School, Transaction Cost Economics, and AntitrustJoshua D. Wright24. Financial-Market ContractingDean V. WilliamsonPART V: ALTERNATIVES AND CRITIQUES25. Critiques of Transaction Cost Economics: An OverviewNicolai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein26. Subjectivism, Understanding, and Transaction CostsFu-Lai Tony Yu27. Austrian Economics and the Theory of the FirmNicolai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein28. Limits of Transaction Cost AnalysisGeoffrey M. HodgsonIndex