-->environmental impacts, each of them is singular. The crucial normative roles that these institutional devices play in the governance and regulation of the international network-firm were shown in a more specific way.

Law plays a crucial role in Williamson?s transaction cost economics but this aspect has been often undermined in the academic debates. This research article proposes to remedy to this lack in literature by making a critical review of the Williamson?s law and economics theory from the analysis of...

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Depuis une vingtaine d'années, le thème de l'autorité dans la relation d'emploi a fait l'objet d'un regain d'intérêt parmi les économistes, en raison notamment dela prise en compte de l'incomplétude des contrats. Dans cet article, notre objectif est double. Il s'agit tout d'abord de...

[eng] The aim of the article is to interpret the recent evolution of coordination mechanisms governing subcontracting relations, particularly extension of the duration of the agreement between the two contracting parties. Using tools of analysis based on the theory of incentives, the author...

[fre] Pour analyser les structures de gouvernement potentielles entre les banques et les entreprises, les auteurs étudient la pertinence du concept de quasi-intégration pour caractériser la relation banque-entreprise. Trois formes pures de gouvernement banque-entreprise sont ainsi mises en...

[eng] Contract, authority and trust : can the subcontracting relationship be compared with the employment relationship ?. . The aim of the article is to compare the subcontracting relationship with the employer/ employee relationship through the study of the coordination mechanisms wich...

This paper assesses how two traditions, namely the economics of contracts and the economics of conventions, incorporate the legal framework of the labor relation in their analysis of the employment relationship. A comparison of these views not only offers different conceptions of the employment...

Given the distinction between power and authority, our aim in this paper is to set forth a framework for the analysis of the authority relation and the associated commanding within the firm based on the economics of convention. We begin by building a general model of the ?authority convention,?...