The purpose of this paper is to offer a complex view of organizations as coordinating
devices. In Section I, I briefly discuss the contractual interpretation, and I point out the …

During the past 50 years organization theory has been occupied primarily with the analysis
of organizing within formal organizations. Less interest has been devoted to organizing …

In relations with their state‐owned enterprises, governments try to capture the advantages
that are thought to exist in operating through autonomous institutions. At the same time, they …

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This paper contends that a major breakthrough has occurred in economics, that this
breakthrough is related to the matching of economics and organization theory, and that this …

Analyzing institutions and the part they play in governing economic action has comprised
the central problem addressed by the new institutional economics. This paradigm has made …

Classic literature on organizations recognizes that the paramount function of an organization
is the coordination of physical and human assets to produce a good or service (eg, Barnard …

This outstanding book presents new original contributions from some of the world's leading
economists including Ronald Coase, Douglass C. North, Masahiko Aoki, Oliver E …

Evaluating organizations according to an efficiency crite rion would make it possible to
predict the form organiza tions will take under certain conditions. Organization theory has …

This book asserts that economists and sociologists need the combined concepts of
conventions and structures to deal with markets and organizations. We argue that there is …