The division of labor and the firm: An Austrian attempt at explaining the firm in the market

PL Bylund - Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper reviews Austrian approaches to the firm and drafts a theory that emphasizes the
firm as a market phenomenon. Here the firm is a vehicle for imaginative entrepreneurs to …

Environmental regulation, roundabout production, and industrial structure transformation and upgrading: Evidence from China

H Wei, H Yao - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
By dividing the production process into technical processes and procedural processes, this
paper supplements the theoretical connotation of production roundaboutness, and analyzes …

The division of labor, capital, communication technology and economic growth: The case of China 1952–99

PK Narayan, GZ Sun - Review of Development Economics, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The implications of the division of labor, capital, and technology for economic growth have
long been a fundamental issue in development economics. This paper employs the bounds …

The economics of division of labor from Xenophon to Hayek (1945): A review of selected literature

GZ Sun - World Scientific Book Chapters, 2005 - ideas.repec.org
The following sections are included: Greek Origins, Medieval Islamic Wisdom and
Schumpeter's" Great Gap" ThesisEmergence of Political Economy of the Division of …

Agglomeration Economies, Division of Labour and the Urban Land‐rent Escalation: A General Equilibrium Analysis of Urbanisation

GZ Sun, X Yang - Australian Economic Papers, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
A general equilibrium model with increasing return to labour specialisation and economies
of transaction agglomeration is developed to address the residential land‐rent escalation …

Driving forces of mining outsourcing: Evidence from China

B ZHENG - 2023 - ink.library.smu.edu.sg
The outsourcing of services by mining enterprises has become a significant global trend.
Classic studies have demonstrated that outsourcing can help enterprises obtain …

Division of Labour and Transaction Costs: Toward a Research Agenda

GZ Sun - Division of Labour & Transaction Costs, 2005 - World Scientific
After outlining what appears to be the central principle unifying the literature of the division of
labour that has been expanding during the last two decades, I highlight a set of selected …

[PDF][PDF] A Review of Selected Literature in the Economics of Division of Labor from 5th Century to WWII: Part I

GZ Sun - 2005 - scholar.archive.org
First of all, one point seems in order regarding the title: this article is not intended to be
comprehensive in its coverage. Rather, it focuses on a deliberately and highly selected body …

Optimal fragmentation in monopolistically competitive industries

M Sundberg - The annals of regional science, 2012 - Springer
Trade in intermediate goods necessitates the viewpoint that final goods are received
through a sequential process of production. In this paper, we explore the role of vertical and …

Causal-Realist Answers to the Coasean Question

PL Bylund - Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract Coase (1937) famously asked: if the price mechanism is efficient, why are there
firms? His answer, following his identification of firms as “islands of conscious power,” was …