Contingency, complexity and the theory of the firm:
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1999
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| Schriftenreihe: | Essays in honour of Brian J. Loasby
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| Beschreibung: | XXIII, 328 S. Ill., graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 1840641878 |
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
List of Contributors ix
Introduction xi
Sheila C. Dow and Peter E. Earl
1 What Can an Economist Learn From Managing a Business? 1
G.B. Richardson
2 Information Costs, Protocols and the Boundaries of the Firm 14
Mark Casson and Nigel Wadeson
3 Incomplete Contracts and Economic Organization: Brian Loasby 40
and the Theory of the Firm
Nicolai J. Foss
4 Loasby and Decisions: A Non Coasian Perspective on the Nature 67
of the Firm
Neil M. Kay
5 Three Stories about the Computer Industry and the Relevance of 92
the Loasbian View of the Firm
Martin Fransman
6 The Changing Nature of Corporate Technological Diversification 113
and the Importance of Organizational Capability
Felicia Fai and John Cantwell
7 Divisions of Labour in the Innovating Firm 138
Keith Pavitt
8 The Methodological Implications of Post Marshallian Economics 156
John H. Finch
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Contents
9 The Bounds of Rationality: Reflections on the Economic 178
Representation of Rationality in the Late Twentieth Century
Kenneth C. Cleaver
10 Bounded Rationality, 'Fundamental' Uncertainty and the Firm 199
in the Long Run
Stephen P. Dunn
11 The Growth of Knowledge and the Subjective Probability 218
Approach
Maurizio Caserta
12 Disequilibrium States and Adjustment Processes: Towards a 235
Historical Time Analysis of Behaviour under Uncertainty
Giuseppe Fontana and Bill Gerrard
13 Equilibrium and Incommensurability 254
Christopher Torr
14 Economics, the State and the State of Economics 274
Richard H. Day
15 Choice, Complexity and Connections 287
Jason Potts
16 Concluding Reflections 306
Brian J. Loasby
Publications of Brian J. Loasby 313
Index of Names 319
Index of Subjects 324
vi
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
2.1 The decision tree from which the protocol is derived 26
2.2 Customer led versus supplier led testing: the effects of testing 31
costs and communication costs
2.3 Customer led versus supplier led testing: the effects of cost 32
of testing, feasibility and criticality
4.1 A firm 68
4.2 Specificity and intemalization 76
4.3 Specificity, replaceability and intemalization 77
4.4 Examples of modes 80
4.5 Two diversified firms 81
4.6 Markets and hierarchies in and between firms 82
4.7 Examples of modes and domains 82
5.1 The old vertical computer industry, circa 1980 97
5.2 The new horizontal computer industry, circa 1995 98
6.1 Strength of relation between size and diversification across firms 130
13.1 The Classical transparency 255
13.2 The Keynesian transparency 256
13.1 2 The composite transparency 257
14.1 Multiple phase dynamics with four regimes 283
15.1 A system 293
15.2 A null system (no connections) 294
15.3 A complete system (total connections) 294
15.4 Some states in state space 295
Tables
4.1 Markets and internal organization 72
5.1 The ten leading American vendors of computing equipment, 94
by market segment, 1994
5.2 System integration and technological range in various firms 100
6.1 List of selected firms by their historical names, compositions 123
and industrial group in 1930
6.2 List of technological sectors for each industrial group 125
(pat' 30 100)
vii
List of Figures and Tables
6.3 Firm size and diversification 1930 1990, by decade 128
12.1 A taxonomy of choice situations 240
13.1 Labour market composition in South Africa, 1991 and 2005 267
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