This overview of transaction cost economics is organized around the "Carnegie Tripleʺ be disciplined; be interdisciplinary; have an active mind. The first of these urges those who would open up the black box of economic organization to do so in a modest, slow, molecular, definitive way, with the...

Contents: 1. New themes in institutional analysis : topics and issues from European research / Georg Krücken, Renate E. Meyer and Peter Walgenbach -- 2. The value of institutional logics / Roger Friedland -- 3. What are institutional logics and where is the perspective taking us? / Christina...