Opportunism is not the only reason why firms exist: why an explanatory emphasis on opportunism may mislead management strategy

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The institutional origins of dynamic capabilities in multinational enterprises (2010, background): “It also seems evident, that no form of governance is completely free of the effects of opportunism (Hodgson, 2004).”
Blockchains and the economic institutions of capitalism (2018, unknown): “Control of opportunism is not the only economic reason that ﬁrms exist (Hodgson 2004; Langlois 1995) but it is one force that allocates economic activity across comparative economic institutions.”
Challenges and growth: the development of the interdisciplinary field of institutional analysis (2007, background): “The classical model of noncooperative game theory has now become a special case useful when individuals attach no utility to the payoffs of others (Hodgson, 1998, 2004).”
The Transaction Cost Economics Theory of the Family Firm: Family–Based Human Asset Specificity and the Bifurcation Bias (2012, unknown): “The latter behavioral assumption has been the subject of significant controversy in the organizational sciences field (Connor & Prahalad, 1991; Ghoshal, 2005; Ghoshal & Moran, 1996; Hodgson, 2004) and a reason for much criticism directed at TCE.”