The basis of competition in today’s marketplace is changing from one based on human labor, to one where the principle source of value creation is an organization’s knowledge, and the organization’s ability to rapidly acquire new knowledge through learning. The rise of the knowledge economy...

Recent conceptualizations of trends in the structure of U.S. industry have focused on the relative importance of markets, hierarchies, and hybrid intermediate forms. This paper seeks to advance the discussion by distinguishing three ideal-typical forms of organization and their corresponding key...

The collected book enhances current economic understanding of the firm as an institution and an organization, looking beyond the narrow boundaries of neoclassical economics to an interdisciplinary approach integrating accounting with law and economics. It represents the first synthesis of the...

The entrepreneur is traditionally considered, in the economic analysis, as the core of continuous innovative process which characterizes modern economies. Often positioned as an alternative of the standard economic theory, this framework was mainly elaborated by the evolutionist and Austrian...

The aim of the paper is to set the agency problem into a broad context of New Institutional Economics with an emphasis on historical connections. In the first section, I explain the historical evolution of basic theoretical concepts like the theory of firm, the theory of market process and the...

The Czech version of this paper can be found at 'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2387418' http://ssrn.com/abstract=2387418The aim of the paper is to set the agency problem into a broad context of New Institutional Economics with an emphasis on historical connections. In the first section, I explain the...

The English version of this paper can be found at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2053674 Czech Abstract: Cílem tohoto článku je vložení problému zastoupení do širšího kontextu Nové institucionální ekonomie s důrazem na historické souvislosti. V první části vysvětluji historický...

Resumen: En este trabajo se hará una presentación de los elementos teóricos propuestos en los planteamientos hechos por R.Coase (1937, 1960, 1994) y O. Williamson (1981, 1991); destacando sus contribuciones analíticas en el campo de la Estrategia Empresarial Corporativa, además de...

Spanish Abstract: En este trabajo se hará una presentación de los elementos teóricos propuestos en los planteamientos hechos por R. Coase (1937, 1960, 1994) y O. Williamson (1981, 1991); destacando sus contribuciones analíticas en el campo de la Estrategia Empresarial Corporativa, además de...

This paper investigates the impact of price transparency on equilibrium prices and fees by considering a policy change implemented by Airbnb that affected the transparency of cleaning fees for IP addresses from the European Union (EU). Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find a...