Transaction Cost Economics and Beyond: Toward a New Economics of the Firm

by Michael Dietrich

Book Overview

In recent years transaction cost economics have come to dominate the discussion of the nature and organization of firms. In Transaction Costs Economics and Beyond Michael Dietrich offers a critical exploration of transaction costs. He argues that whilst they have much to offer, they are still an inadequate basis for a general theory of the firm. Drawing on theories of organizational behaviour as well as economics, he concludes by offering a theory...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415071550
• ISBN13: 9780415071550
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"