Nature of the firm : origins, evolution, and development

企業的本質:起源、演變和發展

基本信息

Author：Oliver E. Williamson

Format：Paperback | 252 pages

Dimensions： 155 x 234 x 14mm | 377g

Publication date：06 May 1993

Publisher：Oxford University Press

Publication City/Country： New York, United States

Language：English

ISBN10：0195083563

ISBN13：9780195083569

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書籍簡介

1937年，羅納德·H·科斯(Ronald H. Coase)發表了《企業的本質》(The Nature of The Firm)，這是一篇經典論文，提出了關於經濟理論中企業概念的基本問題。科斯提出，通過市場而不是企業內部組織交易的比較成本是企業規模和範圍的主要決定因素。科斯因此獲得了1991年的諾貝爾經濟學獎。本捲來自1987年為紀念科斯的經典文章出版五十週年而舉行的一次會議。第一章對這卷書作了概述。接着是1937年文章的再版，以及科斯在會議上的三個演講。這些講座為他的思想起源和發展提供了生動和翔實的歷史。隨後的章節探討了交易成本經濟傳統中出現的廣泛的理論和實證問題。他們説明了交易成本方法的力量，不僅增強了對企業的理解，而且一般經濟組織的問題。除了科斯的作品外，還包括舍温·羅森(Sherwin Rosen)、保羅·約斯科(Paul Joskow)、奧利弗·哈特(Oliver Hart)、哈羅德·德姆塞茨(Harold Demsetz)、斯科特·馬斯滕(Scott Masten)、本傑明·克萊因(Benjamin Klein)，以及該書的編輯奧利弗·E·威廉姆森(Oliver E. Williamson)和西德尼·G·温特(Sidney G. Winter)的文章。《公司的性質》包括科斯獲得諾貝爾經濟學獎的獲獎感言。

In 1937, Ronald H. Coase published "The Nature of the Firm," a classic paper that raised fundamental questions about the concept of the firm in economic theory. Coase proposed that the comparative costs of organizing transactions through markets rather than within firms are the primary determinants of the size and scope of firms. Coase won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Economics for this work. This volume derives from a conference held in 1987 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Coase's classic article. The first chapter affords an overview of the volume. It is followed by a republication of the 1937 article, and by the three lectures Coase presented at the conference. These lectures provide a lively and informative history of the origins and development of his thought. Subsequent chapters explore a wide-range of theoretical and empirical issues that have arisen in the transaction cost economic tradition. They illustrate the power of the transaction cost approach to enhance understanding not only of business firms, but of problems of economic organization generally. In addition to Coase's work, contributors include Sherwin Rosen, Paul Joskow, Oliver Hart, Harold Demsetz, Scott Masten, Benjamin Klein, as well as the volume's editors, Oliver E. Williamson, and Sidney G. Winter. The Nature of the Firm includes Coase's acceptance speech for his Nobel Prize in Economics.