Oliver E. Williamson (1932-)
Williamson este un important teoretician al noului
institutionalism. Doctor al Universitatii Carnegie-Mellon in 1963, astazi este profesor de "Economics and Law"
la Universitatea din
California, Berkeley.
Este
autorul conceptului de "mecanisme ale guvernului" referindu-se la
sistemele de control ale riscului asociat oricarei tranzactii. Domeniile sale
principale de investigatii sunt economia institutiilor, strategia organizatiilor,
birocratia, politica si costurile de tranzactie.
Coordonate:
Williamson, Oliver E.
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Economics
549 Evans Hall # 3880
Berkeley, CA 94720-3880
E-mail: owilliam@haas.berkeley.edu
Lucrari
- "Managerial Discretion and Business Behavior", 1963,
AER
- The Economics of Discretionary Behavior: Managerial objectives in a theory of the firm,
1964.
- "Economics as an Anti-Trust Defense: The welfare trade-offs", 1968,
AER
- Corporate Control and Business Behavior: An inquiry into the effects of organization form on enterprise behavior, 1970.
- "The Vertical Integration of Production: market failure
considerations", 1971,
AER
- "Markets and Hierarchies: Some elementary considerations", 1973,
AER
- Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and antitrust implications, 1975.
- "Franchise Bidding for Natural Monopolies: in general and with respect to
CATV", 1976,
Bell JE
- "Transaction Cost Economics: The governance of contractual
relations", 1979,
J Law Econ
- "The Economics of Organization: The transaction cost approach", 1981,
American J of Sociology
- "Credible Commitments: Using hostages to support exchange", 1983,
AER
- The Economic Institutions of Capitalism, 1985.
- "Vertical Integration and Related Variations on a Transaction- Cost Economics
Theme", 1986, in Stiglitz and Mathewson, editores, New Developments in the Analysis of Market Structure
- "Transaction Cost Economcs", 1987, JEBO
- "Economics and Sociology: Promoting a dialog", 1988, en Farkas and
England,
editores, Industries, Firms and Jobs
- "A Comparison of Alternative Approaches to Economic Organization", 1990,
J of Institutional and Theoretical Economics
- Organization theory : from Chester Barnard to the present and beyond., 1990.
- "The Logic of Economic Organization", 1991, en Williamson
y Winter, editores, Nature of the Firm
- "Economic Institutions: Spontaneous and intentional governance", 1991,
Journal of Law, Economics and Organization
- "Markets, hierarchies, and the modern corporation: an unfolding
perspective", 1993,
JEBO
- The Mechanisms of Governance, 1996.