Recent Development in the theories of the Firm and of Contracts
Monday, May 2, 2005
Jackson Nickerson
Washington University in St. Louis
Transaction and Competences Approaches to the Theory of the Firm
Abstract
- Transaction cost economics theory of the firm
- Competence and knowledge-based theories of the firm
- Conflicts and complements between these theories
- Potential avenues of conflict resolution
- Possibilities for building a new theory of the firm