Institutions and the Evolution of Modern Business

ISBN-13: 9780714644004 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 192 str.

Mark Casson; Mary B. Rose

Opis

A symbiosis has developed between the new institutionalists and business historians, which stems from synergies in the interests of both groups. The central questions posed by Coase and Williamson, of why firms exist and grow, have found echoes in the historical work of Chandler on the forces leading to the rise of big business first in the United States and then in Europe. Conversely Williamson used Chandler's historical evidence to give foundation to his development of transaction cost economics.

Spis treści

Transaction costs and the theory of the firm - the scope and limitations of the new institutional approach, S.R.H. Jones; complexity, community structure and competitive advantage within the Yorkshire woollen industry, c.1700-1850, S.A. Caunce; invisible, visible and direct hands - an institutional interpretation of organizational structure and change in British general insurance, Oliver M. Westall; consultancies, institutions and the diffusion of Taylorism in Britain, Germany and France, 1920s to 1950s, Matthias Kipping; financial reconstruction and industrial reorganisation in different financial systems - a comparative view of British and Swedish institutions during the inter-war period, Hans Sjogren; post-war strategic capitalism in Norway - a theoretical and analytical framework, Sverre Knutsen; the politics of protection - an institutional approach to government-industry relations in the British and United States cotton industries, 1945-73, Mary B. Rose; institutional economics and business history - a way forward? Mark Casson.

O autorze

Mark Casson, Mary B. Rose