Departing from the seminal question that Coase raised in his 1937 work, this article discusses and assesses incomplete contracts theories' analyses of the firm's boundaries - notably transaction cost theory and the modern theory of property rights - by investigating the case of the vertical...

This paper intends to depart from a critique of the nexus of contracts theory of the firm endowed with its moral personification to propose some theoretical foundations of the firm as a real entity. Some old legal views of the corporation are mobilized to complete the conceptual vacuity of...

Ronald H. Coase and Frank H. Knight are usually considered by scholars to be the most influential and pioneering authors of the modern theory of the firm. However, it is less well known that both of them argue, in a different but often complementary way, that employment relationships and...

This paper aims to analyze the impact of recent industrial changes on the governance structure of power relationships. To achieve this goal, three insights are discussed. First, the definition of what a firm is in both economic theory and in corporate law is clarified. Second, the four core...

This paper aims to analyze the impact of recent industrial changes on the governance structure of power relationships. To achieve this goal, three insights are discussed. First, the definition of what a firm is in both economic theory and in corporate law is clarified. Second, the four core...

The firm was evicted from economic analysis for a long time. It appeared as a particular and substantial "scope" thanks to the economist R.H. Coase at the end of the 1930'S but sunk into oblivion for three decades. This paper deals with the 1970's renewal of interest in the theory of the firm,...

In this article, I defend that since power is a strong vehicle of cooperation both within and between firms, organizational economists, who often reject power from their analysis, have to reconsider this concept for analyzing the intra- and inter-organizational cooperation. To do it, I use the...

Partant d'une critique de la théorie fictionnaliste de la firme en tant que noeud de contrats, cetarticle met en exergue les fondements ontologiques de la firme en tant qu'entité réelle. Lesdébats juridiques traditionnels sur la nature de la firme sont « recontextualisés » dansl'intention...

This paper intends to depart from a critique of the nexus of contracts theory of the firm endowed with its moral personification to propose some theoretical foundations of the firm as a real entity. Some old legal views of the corporation are mobilized to complete the conceptual vacuity of...

-->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.