Oliver E. Williamson

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#39

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#61

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#31

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Oliver E. Williamson's Degrees

PhD Economics Carnegie Mellon University
Masters Business Administration Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, Oliver Eaton Williamson was an American economist, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which he shared with Elinor Ostrom.

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Oliver E. Williamson's Published Works

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Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and Antitrust Implications. (1977) (14790)
Transaction-Cost Economics: The Governance of Contractual Relations (1979) (9384)
Comparative Economic Organization: The Analysis of Discrete Structural Alternatives (1994) (6799)
The Economic Institutions of Capitalism: Firms, Markets, Relational Contracting (1985) (5934)
The Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach (1981) (5914)
The New Institutional Economics: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead (2000) (5327)
The Mechanisms of Governance (1997) (4799)
Markets and Hierarchies (1975) (3214)
Markets and hierarchies, analysis and antitrust implications : a study in the economics of internal organization (1975) (3068)
Calculativeness, Trust, and Economic Organization (1993) (2828)
Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance (1988) (2309)
The economic institutions of capitalism (1985) (2275)
The Firm, the Market, and the Law (1990) (2106)
Credible Commitments: Using Hostages to Support Exchange (1983) (2039)
The Vertical Integration of Production: Market Failure Considerations (1971) (1841)
STRATEGY RESEARCH: GOVERNANCE AND COMPETENCE PERSPECTIVES (1999) (1716)
The Modern Corporation: Origins, Evolution, Attributes (1981) (1563)
/ STRATEGIZING, ECONOMIZING, AND ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION (1991) (1410)
Transaction Cost Economics (1995) (1357)
The Theory of the Firm as Governance Structure: From Choice to Contract (2002) (1262)
The economics of discretionary behavior : managerial objectives in a theory of the firm (1965) (1205)
Transaction Cost Economics: How It Works; Where It is Headed (1998) (1191)
Hierarchical Control and Optimum Firm Size (1967) (1028)
Transaction Cost Economics and Organization Theory (1993) (932)
OUTSOURCING: TRANSACTION COST ECONOMICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT† (2008) (894)
Franchise Bidding for Natural Monopolies -- in General and with Respect to CATV (1976) (857)
Markets and Hierarchies: Some Elementary Considerations (1973) (840)
Understanding the employment relation: the analysis of idiosyncratic exchange (1975) (735)
Public and Private Bureaucracies: A Transaction Cost Economics Perspective (1999) (728)
The Economics of Governance (2005) (700)
The Nature of the Firm: Origins, Evolution, and Development (1992) (677)
Asset specificity and economic organization (1985) (633)
The firm as a nexus of treaties (1992) (606)
Economic organization : firms, markets, and policy control (1988) (550)
Opportunism and its critics (1993) (510)
Transaction Cost Economics: The Natural Progression † (2010) (497)
The Institutions of Governance (1998) (462)
The Logic of Economic Organization (1988) (436)
Corporate Control and Business Behavior. (1971) (393)
Economies as an Anti-Trust Defense: The Welfare Tradeoffs (1972) (389)
Comparative Economic Organization—Within and Between Countries (1999) (319)
Economic Organization: The Case For Candor (1996) (318)
Organization Form, Residual Claimants, and Corporate Control (1983) (318)
The organization of work a comparative institutional assessment (1980) (292)
Organization Theory: From Chester Barnard to the Present and Beyond (1995) (272)
Chapter 3 Transaction cost economics (1989) (262)
Economic Institutions: Spontaneous and Intentional Governance (1991) (262)
The Economics of Governance: Framework and Implications (1984) (261)
The Institutions and Governance of Economic Development and Reform (1994) (246)
Hierarchies, Markets and Power in the Economy: An Economic Perspective (1995) (243)
The Economics of Transaction Costs (1999) (234)
Markets, hierarchies, and the modern corporation: An unfolding perspective (1992) (209)
Transaction cost economics: The comparative contracting perspective (1987) (204)
The Lens of Contract: Private Ordering (2002) (184)
Economics and Organization: A Primer (1996) (160)
The Nature of the Firm: Origins, Evolution, and Development.by Oliver E. Williamson; Sidney G. Winter (1993) (153)
Economic Evolution: An Enquiry into the Foundations of New Institutional Economics. (1996) (152)
Wage Rates as a Barrier to Entry: The Pennington Case in Perspective (1968) (147)
Predatory Pricing: A Strategic and Welfare Analysis (1977) (147)
Corporate control and business behavior : an inquiry into the effects of organization form on enterprise behavior (1970) (147)
Calculativeness, Trust, and Economic Organization, Journal of Law & Economics, . (1993) (143)
Transaction cost economics and business administration (2005) (123)
Transaction cost economics and the Carnegie connection (1996) (113)
Innovation and Market Structure (1965) (107)
Examining economic organization through the lens of contract (2003) (106)
Efficiency, Power, Authority and Economic Organization (1996) (103)
Technology and transaction cost economics: A reply (1988) (97)
Assessing Vertical Market Restrictions: Antitrust Ramifications of the Transaction Cost Approach (1979) (95)
Contested Exchange versus the Governance of Contractual Relations (1993) (94)
Transaction Cost Economics: An Introduction (2007) (85)
Transaction cost economics and its uses in marketing (2012) (81)
Visible and Invisible Governance (1994) (80)
The Economics of Internal Organization: Exit and Voice in Relation to Markets and Hierarchies (1976) (78)
Corporate Boards of Directors: In Principle and in Practice (2007) (78)
The Economics of Defense Contracting: Incentives and Performance (1967) (73)
An Economic Analysis of Auditor Independence for a Multi-Client, Multi-Service Public Accounting Firm (1997) (71)
Economics of Antitrust: Transaction Cost Considerations (1974) (71)
Obligational Markets and the Mechanics of Inflation (1978) (70)
The Economic Analysis of Institutions and Organisations - in General and with Respect to Country Studies (1993) (66)
Why Law, Economics, and Organization? (2000) (65)
A Dynamic Theory of Interfirm Behavior (1965) (63)
The Share Economy: Conquering Stagflation (1986) (60)
Economies as an Antitrust Defense Revisited (1977) (58)
Politics and International Investment: Measuring Risks and Protecting Profits (2002) (54)
PEAK-LOAD PRICING AND OPTIMAL CAPACITY UNDER INDIVISIBILITY CONSTRAINTS (2016) (53)
Political Institutions: The Neglected Side of the Story--Comment (1990) (53)
Vertical Integration and Related Variations on a Transaction-Cost Economics Theme (1986) (53)
Managerial Discretion, Organization Form, and the Multi-division Hypothesis (1971) (52)
Economic Institutions and Development: A View from the Bottom (2000) (51)
Revisiting Legal Realism: The Law, Economics, and Organization Perspective (1996) (51)
Selling Expensse as a Barrier to Entry (1963) (48)
Social Choice: A Probabilistic Approach (1967) (48)
Hierarchies and Markets (2001) (46)
Transaction Cost Economics: The Precursors (2008) (45)
Transaction Cost Economics: The Origins (2010) (43)
Antitrust Economics: Mergers, Contracting, and Strategic Behavior (1987) (42)
A Comparison of Alternative Approaches to Economic Organization (2016) (42)
Efficient Labour Organization (1984) (40)
Reflections on the New Institutional Economics (1985) (40)
8. REASONABLE RULES FOR RATE REGULATION: PLAUSIBLE POLICIES FOR AN IMPERFECT WORLD (1967) (39)
Human Actors and Economic Organization (1999) (37)
Pragmatic methodology: a sketch, with applications to transaction cost economics (2009) (36)
Technology and the organization of work : A rejoinder (1983) (35)
The Economics and Sociology of Organization (1988) (32)
Transaction Cost Economics and Public Administration (1997) (32)
Credible Commitments: Further Remarks (1984) (32)
Dominant Firms and the Monopoly Problem: Market Failure Considerations (1972) (31)
Employee ownership and internal governance: A perspective (1985) (31)
Economies as an Antitrust Defense: Reply (1969) (29)
Allocative Efficiency and the Limits of Antitrust (1969) (29)
Technology and the organization of workA reply to Jones (1983) (29)
The incentive limits of firms: A comparative institutional assessment of bureaucracy (1984) (28)
Prices : issues in theory, practice, and public policy (1967) (26)
The Evolving Science of Organization (2016) (26)
Contract and economic organization (2000) (24)
Externalities, Insurance, and Disability Analysis (1967) (23)
The economic nature of the firm: The governance of contractual relations (2009) (23)
The Economics of Transaction Costs (Elgar Critical Writings Reader) (1999) (22)
Transforming Merger Policy: The Pound of New Perspectives (1986) (22)
The Economics of Discretionary Behavior: Managerial Objectives in a Theory of the Firm. (1965) (21)
The organization of work: Reply (1981) (21)
The Transaction Cost Economics Project: The Theory and Practice of the Governance of Contractual Relations (2013) (20)
Transaction Cost Economics: An Overview (2010) (20)
Will the Real Ronald Coase Please Stand Up?@@@The Nature of the Firm: Origins, Evolution, and Development. (1992) (19)
Empirical Microeconomics: Another Perspective (2000) (18)
Research Needs and Opportunities in Transaction Cost Economics (1994) (16)
8 The Economics and Sociology of Organization Promoting a Dialogue (1988) (16)
A rational theory of the federal budgeting process (1967) (15)
The Transaction Cost Economics Project (2013) (15)
Peak-Load Pricing: Some Further Remarks (1974) (14)
Calculated Trust, a Reply to Craswell's Comment on Williamson (1993) (13)
THE EFFICIENCY DEFENSE IN MERGER LAW: ECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS AND RECENT CANADIAN DEVELOPMENTS (2016) (12)
Administrative Decision Making and Pricing: Externality and Compensation Analysis Applied (1970) (12)
Ronald Harry Coase: institutional economist and institution builder (2014) (12)
Kenneth Arrow and the New Institutional Economics (1987) (11)
On the Nature of the Firm: Some Recent Developments (1981) (10)
On the Governance of the Modern Corporation (1979) (10)
Contract, Government and Transaction Cost Economics (2017) (10)
Transaction Costs and Property Rights (2001) (9)
STRATEGIZING, ECONOMIZING, AND ECONOMIC (1991) (8)
Opening the Black Box of Firm and Market Organization: Antitrust (2009) (8)
Vertical Merger Guidelines: Interpreting the 1982 Reforms (1983) (8)
The transaction cost economics project: origins, evolution, utilization (2016) (8)
The economic nature of the firm: The limits of firms: incentive and bureaucratic features (2009) (8)
ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS AND INTERNAL EFFICIENCY Markets and Hierarchies : Some Elementary Considerations By (2012) (7)
New Institutional Economics: Foreword (2008) (7)
Some Issues in the Transformation of Ownership Institutions in Poland (1992) (7)
DEREGULATORY TAKINGS AND BREACH OF THE REGULATORY CONTRACT: SOME PRECAUTIONS (1996) (7)
Antitrust Enforcement: Where it has been; Where it is Going (1983) (7)
Some uneasiness with the Coase Theorem: Comment (1995) (7)
Applications to Economic Development and Reform (2002) (6)
Essays in antitrust economics (1987) (6)
7. UNEMPLOYMENT AND INFLATION: THE CRUEL DILEMMA (1967) (6)
Work and Industry: Structures, Markets, and Processes (2013) (6)
Calculated Trust, A Reply (1993) (6)
Evolution of International Management Structures . Edited by Harold F. Williamson. Newark, Del., University of Delaware Press, 1975. Pp. xii + 254. $20.00. (1975) (5)
Exit and voice : Some implications for the study of the modern corporation (1974) (5)
Public and Private Bureaus (1995) (5)
BANDED CONTRACTS , MEDIATING INSTITUTIONS , AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE : A NATURALIST ANALYSIS OF CONTRACTUAL THEORIES OF THE FIRM (2000) (5)
Ronald Harry Coase: international economist/institutional builder (2000) (4)
Corporate Governance: A Contractual and Organizational Perspective (2011) (4)
Consumer Lock-In and the Theory of the Firm (2012) (4)
Williamson on Predatory Pricing II (1979) (4)
Symposium On Antitrust Law and Economics (1979) (3)
Antitrust Enforcement and the Modern Corporation (1972) (3)
Commentary: Williamson on Predatory Pricing II (1979) (3)
Friedman (1953) and the theory of the firm (2009) (3)
Corporate law and economic analysis: Mergers, acquisitions, and leveraged buyouts: an efficiency assessment (1990) (3)
2. A DYNAMIC STOCHASTIC THEORY OF MANAGERIAL BEHAVIOR (1967) (3)
DEFENSE CONTRACTS: AN ANALYSIS OF ADAPTIVE RESPONSE (1965) (3)
J. Michael Montias' The Structure of Economic Systems (1977) (3)
A Microanalytic Assessment of "The Share Economy" (1986) (3)
Book Review:The Limits of Organization. Kenneth J. Arrow (1975) (2)
10. Firms and Markets (1977) (2)
Is soCIal CaPItal rEally tHE CaPItal In tErms of EConomICs? (2015) (2)
Economic Man Versus Organization Man@@@Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and Anti-trust Implications: A Study of the Economics of Internal Organization. (1979) (2)
Theories of Firm and Market Organization: Focal Transactions, Empirical Testing, and Scaling Up (2011) (2)
What Is Going on Here?Pragmatic Methodology and Economic Organization (2003) (2)
Interdisciplinary Social Science: The Transaction Cost Economics Project (2014) (1)
Pretrial uses of Economists: On the use of “Incentive Logic” to Screen Predation (1984) (1)
Interdisciplinary Social Science (2014) (1)
Predatory Pricing Rules: A Comment on Williamson's Output Restriction Rule: Reply to Lefever (1981) (1)
Antitrust law and economics (1980) (1)
Reflections on Antitrust (2010) (1)
6. WAGE AND PRICE DETERMINATION IN Μ ACROECONOMETRICS (1967) (1)
15. THE UNDERLYING RATIONALITY OF BUSINESS PRICING DECISIONS (1967) (1)
Weight dependence in BCM leads to adjustable synaptic competition (2022) (1)
Reply to Lefever (1981) (1)
BANKS AND BANK HOLDING COMPANIES (2016) (1)
A Preliminary Response (1978) (1)
Book Review:A Macroeconomic Theory of Workable Competition. C. E. Ferguson (1965) (1)
Alfred D. Chandler Jr (2009) (1)
Review of The Antitrust Paradox: A Policy at War with Itself by Robert H. Bork (1979) (1)
7. Transaction Cost Economics and Organization Theory (2018) (0)
The Economics of Contracts: Contract and economic organization (2002) (0)
COMMENTS FROM THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION (2016) (0)
Managerial Discretion Models (1972) (0)
POSTATTACK FARM PROBLEMS. PART 2. ATTACK EFFECTS ON INPUTS AND FARM OUTPUT (1961) (0)
TRANSACTION C OST E CONOMICS (1989) (0)
1-1-1984 Corporate Governance (2013) (0)
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Mutual and Self-Enforcing Agreements. Contracts as the Basic Institution of Economics: Network Knowledge Instead of Rational Choice (2019) (0)
Foreword to economic institutions of strategy (2009) (0)
Cost Economics : An Introduction (2007) (0)
9. PRACTICAL PROBLEMS OF MARGINAL-COST PRICING IN PUBLIC ENTERPRISE: ENGLAND (1967) (0)
Williamson, and seminar participants at the University of Michigan Business School Remaining errors are, of course, ours. Path Dependence, Lock-In, and History (2009) (0)
Book Reviews (1974) (0)
3. AN ATTEMPT TO SYNTHESIZE SOME THEORIES OF THE FIRM (1967) (0)
4. REQUIEM FOR A LIGHTWEIGHT: A CRITICAL HISTORICAL SKETCH (1967) (0)
Book Review: Human Resources, Personnel, and Organizational Behavior: Work and Industry: Structures, Markets, and Processes (1988) (0)
10. PRACTICAL PROBLEMS OF MARGINAL-COST PRICING IN PUBLIC ENTERPRISE: THE UNITED STATES (1967) (0)
Microanalytic Business History (2003) (0)
Firm Survival and Industry Evolution in Vertically Related Populations (0)
Economics and Sociology (2020) (0)
FOR POWER : AN ANALYSIS OF ELECTRICAL UTILITY DEREGULATION (2017) (0)
Pricing, Regulating and Intrinsic Motivation (2022) (0)
16. PRICING PRACTICES AND ANTITRUST (1967) (0)
When Two Become One, and then Come Undone: An Organizational Approach to Marriage and Its Implications for Divorce Law (2016) (0)
Utopia and Campaign Spending (2000) (0)
Corporate Boards of Directors: A Precautionary Perspective (2008) (0)
ON THE USE OF ECONOMIC MODELS IN ANTITRUST : THE REALEMON (2017) (0)
Interview with Nobel Prize Laureates Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson (2009) (0)
Delimiting Antitrust (2013) (0)
EPFL, Lausanne – ODY VIP Room TRANSNATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION OF ERTMS: THE ROLE OF MICRO- INSTITUTIONS IN THE COORDINATION PROCESS A case study for corridor D (Draft version of master dissertation) (2009) (0)
Biographical Memoirs: Alfred D. Chandler JR. (2009) (0)
Transaction cost economics and its uses in marketing (2011) (0)
MAX WEBER PROGRAMME Contractual Networks and the Access of Small and Medium Enterprises to Global Value Chains (2013) (0)
1-1-1987 Delimiting Antitrust (2013) (0)
Reflections on Antitrust (2012) (0)
Incentives and Performance (1970) (0)
Ah, yes : Governance! (1994) (0)
Incentives and Performance (1970) (0)
Book Review:The Ownership Income of Management. Wilbur G. Lewellen (1972) (0)
A Recovering Management Accountant Reflects on His Journey through the World of Cost Management (2001) (0)
WHY LAW ,E CONOMICS, AND ORGANIZATION? (2005) (0)
Credible commitments (1984) (0)

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