Chapter 1 - Toward a new institutional economics 1. Some antecedents 2. A preliminary statement of the organizational failures framework 3. Three illustrations Chapter 2 - The organizational failures framework 1. Bounded rationality and uncertainty/complexity 2. Opportunism and small numbers 3. Information impactecness 4. Atmosphere 5. Summary remarks Chapter 3 - Peer groups and simple hierarchies 1. Peer group associations 2. Peer group limitations 3. Simple hierarchie 4. Involvement 5. Concluding remarks Chapter 5 - Intermediate product markets and vertical integration 1. Prior literature: a transactional interpretation 2. Static markets 3. Sales contracts for component supply 4. Unified ownership of plant and equipment: simple hierarchy extended 5. Complex hierarchy: the employment relation extended 6. Forward integration into wholesaling 7. Concluding remarks Chapter 6 - Vertical, II: some qualifications 1. Interfirm exchange: some qualifications 2. Possible or purported antisocial consequences 3. Antirust implications Chapter 7 - Limits of vertical integration and firm size 1. Internalizing the incremental transcation: some disabilities 2. Size considerations 3. Incentive limits of the emplyoyment relation 4. Concluding remarks Chapter 8 - The multidivisional structure 1. The unitary form enterprise 2. Organizational innovation: the multidivisional structure 3. Competition in the capital market 4. Optimum divisionalization 5. The "M-form hypothesis" and concluding remarks Chapter 9 - Conglomerate organization 1. the affirmative emphasis 2. competition in the capital market 3. Public policy issues 4. Some evidence 5. Concluding remarks Chapter 10 - Market structure in relation to technical and organizational innovation 1. Technical innovation and market structure in relation to technical and organizational innovation 1. Technical innovation and market structure: the conventional dichotomy 2. Technical innovation and market strucuture: refinements 3. Organizational innovation and market structure 4. A systems Approach Chapter 11 - Dominant firms and the monopoly problem 1. The current approach to unlawful monopolization 2. A market failure interpretation of dominance 3. Government intervention and market failure 4. Remedies for structural dominance 5. Application to the structure-conduct controversy 6. Dominant firms and the organizational failures framework 7. Conclusion Chapter 12 - Oligopoly: interfirm versus intrafirm organization 1. Some antecedents 2. Oligopoly regarded as a problem of contracting 3. The contracting approach and prior treatments contrasted 4. Policy implications: dominant firms versus oligopolistic interdependence Chapter 13 - Conclusions 1. Toward a transactional paradigm 2. The organizational failures framework and hierarchy 3. Antitrust implications 4. Some directions for future research