International audienceIn this paper we present the main developments of the theories of the firm rooted in Coase’s [Coase, R.H., 1937. The nature of the firm. Economica, New Series 4, 386–405] seminal article. We show that the two important topics of the nature and boundaries of the firm, as well as the internal organization of the firm, give place to essential contributions. We present those contributions and their limits and then their possible developments. Finally we introduce the papers of this issue
The book enhances current economic understanding of the firm as an institution and an organization, ...
Working within the nexus-of-contracts model, scholars have struggled to develop a rhetorical paradig...
'The emerging knowledge economy is prompting decisive changes in the organization of business firms....
International audienceIn this paper we present the main developments of the theories of the firm roo...
Seventy years ago, Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize in 1991, wrote a seminal paper “The nature of the firm”...
We discuss the emergence of the theory of the firm (in the Coasian sense); survey and discuss the ma...
Boundaries are of the utmost importance because they establish size and shape. In so far as changes ...
The authors explore the current state of the theory of the firm, with attention to its historical or...
In 1937 Ronald Coase posed several killer questions about the nature of the firm; why (a) do they ex...
The firm was evicted from economic analysis for a long time. It appeared as a particular and substan...
This paper argues that the notions of ‘the nature of the firm’ prevailing in economics and managemen...
none1noThe paper aims at flagging some new insights the innovation literature has recently offered t...
The Behavioral Theory of the Firm has for over fifty years shaped a section of economic thought on t...
The Handbook on the Economics and Theory of the Firm explores both the economics of the firm and the...
The paper is aimed at the study of the ideological origins of multinational corporations from the pe...
The book enhances current economic understanding of the firm as an institution and an organization, ...
Working within the nexus-of-contracts model, scholars have struggled to develop a rhetorical paradig...
'The emerging knowledge economy is prompting decisive changes in the organization of business firms....
International audienceIn this paper we present the main developments of the theories of the firm roo...
Seventy years ago, Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize in 1991, wrote a seminal paper “The nature of the firm”...
We discuss the emergence of the theory of the firm (in the Coasian sense); survey and discuss the ma...
Boundaries are of the utmost importance because they establish size and shape. In so far as changes ...
The authors explore the current state of the theory of the firm, with attention to its historical or...
In 1937 Ronald Coase posed several killer questions about the nature of the firm; why (a) do they ex...
The firm was evicted from economic analysis for a long time. It appeared as a particular and substan...
This paper argues that the notions of ‘the nature of the firm’ prevailing in economics and managemen...
none1noThe paper aims at flagging some new insights the innovation literature has recently offered t...
The Behavioral Theory of the Firm has for over fifty years shaped a section of economic thought on t...
The Handbook on the Economics and Theory of the Firm explores both the economics of the firm and the...
The paper is aimed at the study of the ideological origins of multinational corporations from the pe...
The book enhances current economic understanding of the firm as an institution and an organization, ...
Working within the nexus-of-contracts model, scholars have struggled to develop a rhetorical paradig...
'The emerging knowledge economy is prompting decisive changes in the organization of business firms....