Transaction-cost Economics in Real Time
- R. Langlois
- Economics
- 1992
This paper attempts to place the theq of the boundaries of thejirm within the context of the passage of time. More precisely, it resurrects and places in a modem frame some of the insights of the…
Modularity in technology and organization
- R. Langlois
- Economics
- 1 September 2002
The Vanishing Hand: The Changing Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism
- R. Langlois
- Economics, History
- 14 September 2001
Alfred Chandler's portrayal of the managerial revolution of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries does not extend well into the late twentieth century, when widespread vertical…
Networks and innovation in a modular system: Lessons from the microcomputer and stereo component industries
- R. Langlois, P. Robertson
- Business
- 1 August 1992
Firms, Markets and Economic Change: A dynamic Theory of Business Institutions
- R. Langlois, P. Robertson
- Economics, Business
- 6 July 1995
Traditonal western forms of corporate organization have been called into question by the success of Japanese keiretsu. Firms, Markets and Economic Change draws on industrial economics, business…
External Economies and Economic Progress: The Case of the Microcomputer Industry
- R. Langlois
- EconomicsBusiness History Review
- 1 March 1992
The following article provides a thorough chronicle of the microcomputer industry. That industry is a striking case, in which industrial growth took place through the creation of “external”…
Innovation, Networks, and Vertical Integration
- P. Robertson, R. Langlois
- Economics
- 1 July 1995
The Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm and the Theory of the Entrepreneurial Firm
- R. Langlois
- Business, Economics
- 1 June 2005
The entrepreneurial theory of the firm argues that entrepreneurship, properly understood, is a crucial but neglected element in explaining the nature and boundaries of the firm. By contrast, the…
Capabilities and Governance: The Rebirth of Production in the Theory of Economic Organization
- R. Langlois, N. Foss
- Economics
- 1 January 1997
We argue that since Coase’s seminal 1937 paper on “The Nature of the Firm,” there has been an odd and unjustified separation between price theory and the economics of organization. For example,…
FRANK KNIGHT ON RISK, UNCERTAINTY, AND THE FIRM: A NEW INTERPRETATION
- R. Langlois, Metin M. Coşgel
- Economics
- 1 July 1993
The authors attempt to interpret Frank Knight by taking him on his own terms. Among their conclusions are the following: (1) Knight's distinction between risk and uncertainty is not solely a…
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