Kathleen M. Eisenhardt (1989), 'Agency Theory: An Assessment and Review', Academy of Management Review, 14 (1), January … in Outsourcing to China: Estimating the Property-Rights Theory of the Firm', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120 (2), May …: Managing the Efficiency and Adaptability Trade-Off', Strategic Management Journal, 33 (2), February, 189-216 -- Jeremy Howells …

advances a more integrative framework. He probes issues such as: • the tension between the need and the ability to contract … control • dialectical tensions stemming from contract application • standardization of contracting practices. By exploring … -- ch. 3. Need versus ability to contract -- ch. 4. How trust and contracts coevolve -- ch. 5. Functions of negotiation and …

1. Environmental wrongs -- 2. Externalities and the environment -- 3. Property rights for pollution -- 4. Property …

firm and the theory and policy of externalities - all aspects of the economy as a process of valuation. This is followed by …The Economy as Process of Valuation sheds new light on the potential benefits of concept and theory formation along … focuses on Coases's work on institutions and considers the implications for a variety of subjects including the theory of the …

Mirjam van Praag compares and contrasts the economic theory of entrepreneurship with determinants of successful …

. Entrepreneurs, managers, and policymakers will benefit from the examination of global perspectives and different national contexts …

1. Some difficulties in the existing theory of externalities -- 2. Coase and all that -- 3. More on why government … look at how governments and externalities are linked. Economists frequently justify government as dealing with … externalities, defined as benefits or costs that are generated as the result of an economic activity, but that do not accrue …

This book elaborates a new dependent and localized growth theory based upon knowledge externalities by making two … knowledge externalities that consist in the access to localized external knowledge, at costs that are below equilibrium levels …