The Nature of the Firm

By Patrick L. Anderson. 2013

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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WHAT'S NEW ABOUT THE NEW ECONOMY?SOURCES OF GROWTH IN THE MANAGED AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ECONOMIESSOURCES OF GROWTH IN THE MANAGED AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ECONOMIES (2000, neutral): “Both the nature of the product(s) as well as production and organization methods are continually improved upon.”
Corporate governance mechanisms and capital structure in UAE (2012, background): “The theory is based on two practical assumptions (Myers, 2001).”
Offshoring and Reshoring: An Update on the Manufacturing Location Decision (2013, background): “Internalization theory also considers the make-orbuy decision and is grounded in the work of Coase (1937).”
Exploring the Relevance of Case Study Research (2015, background): “Economic theories brought in the concept of the firm aiming at lowering the costs of transactions (Coase, 1937; Williamson, 1985).”
Uncertainty, Knowledge Problems, and Entrepreneurial Action (2018, background): “Extending Knight’s line of thinking, both Coase (1937) and Keynes (1937)asserted thatuncertaintyconstitutes the central problem confronted by entrepreneurs, and thus a consensus emerged that uncertainty and entrepreneurial action are inextricably linked in foundational theories of entrepreneurship…”
Global Value Chain Configuration: A Review and Research Agenda (2017, background): “In other words, firms have to deal with the ake-or-buy decision enounced in the transaction cost thery (Coase, 1937; Williamson, 1975).”
The ABC for Studying the Too-Much-of-a-Good-Thing Effect (2016, background): “Strategic management Diversification: relationship between diversification and performance (observed by Qian, Li, Li, & Qian, 2008) A: Diversification B: Efficiency gains as a result of economies of scope (Helfat & Eisenhardt, 2004) and reduced risk (Kim, Hwang, & Burgers, 1993) C: Cross-subsidizati”
Immigrant remittances and the venture investment environment of developing countries (2011, background): “First, and consistent with TCE theory (Coase, 1937; Henisz, 2000; Williamson, 1985), I assume that capital and knowledge flows to developing countries from " standard " sources such as MNEs, including venture firms, are stifled by high international communication and coordination costs.”
Redefining Industrial Symbiosis (2012, neutral): “…to the functioning of the biological ecosystem by Graedel (1996), who observed that both energy cost and transaction cost (in terms of monitoring resources at a distance) for closing resource loops are lower at a smaller spatial scale; Coase (1937) supports this hypothesis for the economic system.”
Firm-Specific Assets, Multinationality, and Financial Performance: A Meta-analytic Review and Theoretical Integration (2011, neutral): “We maintain that although the existence of MNEs can be explained using internalization theory based on Coasian transaction costs arguments (e.g., Coase, 1937), the role of firm-specific assets in the multinationalityperformance relationship can be explored by investigating the sources of…”
New institutional accounting and IFRS (2011, neutral): “…institutions can lower transaction costs, reduce information costs and information asymmetry, lower coordination costs, enforce and protect property rights, prevent deadweight loss, internalise externalities and address other possible market failures (see Coase 1937, Alchian and Demsetz 1972).”
Institutional entrepreneurship and change in fields (2017, background): “According to this view, institutions, because they structure and make predictable actors’ behaviour, are solutions to the problems faced by cognitively limited actors whose interdependence with other actors creates the possibility of opportunistic behaviour and increased transaction costs (Coase, 19”
Institutional change in economic geography (2014, background): “While it appears obvious that institutions affect transactions within firms (hierarchies) and within networks (Coase 1937), this is not”
Corporate Suppliers and Customers and Accounting Conservatism (2012, neutral): “For instance, Coase (1972) argues that durable goods monopolists are only able to enjoy market power for a limited period of time because once an initial amount of output is sold the monopolist will need to cut its price to obtain further profits and this continues until price falls to marginal…”