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Author:   Oliver E. Williamson (Transamerica Professor of Business and Law, Haas School of Business, Transamerica Professor of Business and Law, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Edition:   Expanded Edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780195098303

ISBN 10:   0195098307
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   13 July 1995
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Contributors Oliver E. Williamson: Introduction 1: Barbara Levitt and James G. March: Chester I. Barnard and the Intelligence of Learning 2: W. Richard Scott: Symbols and Organizations: From Barnard to the Institutionalists 3: Glenn R. Carroll: On the Organizational Ecology of Chester I. Barnard 4: Jeffrey Pfeffer: Incentives in Organizations: The Importance of Social Relations 5: Mary Douglas: Converging on Autonomy: Anthropology and Institutional Economics 6: Terry M. Moe: The Politics of Structural Choice: Toward a Theory of Public Bureaucracy 7: Oliver Hart: An Economist's Perspective on the Theory of the Firm 8: Oliver E. Williamson: Chester Barnard and the Incipient Science of Organization 9: Oliver E. Williamson: Transaction Cost Economics and Organization Theory Index

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Each essay is of high quality, offering both introspective summary and creative projection. --Choice<br> First-rate people gave the lectures, and what they have to say is important to all of us concerned with the field. --Contemporary Sociology<br> An intriguing array of chapters written by well-known scholars...each of which relates its message back to Barnard and forward, extending some aspect of organization theory....Perhaps the volume's most important contribution is its insistence that students of organizations become interdisciplinary scholars. --Academy of Management Review<br> Organization Theory gives evidence that the study of organizations has been proceeding productively. --Journal of Economic Literature<br>

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Oliver E. Williamson is also co-author of The Nature of the Firm (OUP, 1991)

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