Nicholas Argyres

Washington University in St.Louis

Contracting Practices and Learning to Contract

I. Lessons from field work on contracting practices
- a. Review of key TCE and TCE-related studies
- b. Scope and limitations of existing studies
II. Learning to contract
- a. Literature on organization learning
- b. Evidence on learning to contract
- c. Relationship to TCE
- d. Contract design capabilities and competitive advantage
- e. Roles of lawyers, engineers and managers in contract design