This paper reviews the state of the art in Productions and Operations Management (POM)
academic research regarding outsourcing in supply chain contexts. We first acknowledge …

Abstract Cryptocurrencies (eg, Bitcoin, EOS, Etherum, Litecoin, and others) are disrupting
the traditional banking and financial systems. The cryptocurrencies are based on a set of …

The business enterprise is the prime institution in economic development and growth; yet,
until recently, mainstream economics has mostly treated firms as homogeneous black boxes …

Transaction cost economics (TCE), and more specifically the version of TCE that has been
developed by Oliver,,), has become an increasingly important anchor for the analysis of a …

Economic and sociological approaches to economic organization have reached a state of
healthy tension. That is to be contrasted with an earlier state of affairs in which the two …

WHEN PETER DOUGHERTY, our editor at Princeton University Press, asked us if we were
willing to prepare a second edition of Economics and the Law, the first thing we did was to …

Previous studies examining the relationship between uncertainty and vertical integration
have produced a conflicting set of results. To clarify this puzzle we drew on the literature to …

Eine Einfuhrung in ein komplexes, sich dynamisch entwickelndes, aber konzeptionell unein-
heitliches und mit Blick auf die forschungsleitenden Theorien eher unterentwickeltes …

It is surely appropriate that the John R. Commons lecture would someday be given on the
subject of Institutions. Anyone who goes back to read The Legal Foundations of Capital ism …

We argue that since Coase? s seminal 1937 paper on" The Nature of the Firm," there has
been an odd and unjustified separation between price theory and the economics of …