WILLIAMSON, Oliver E

Markets and hierarchies : analysis and antitrust implications - New York : The Free Press, c1975 - 286 p.

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


Teoria Econômica
Mercado
Inovação
Monopólio
Olipólio
Política Pública
Competitividade
Empresa Privada
Mercado de Capitais
Antitruste