O texto apresenta uma análise do discurso de Oliver Williamson, concentrando-se na negociação de certos conceitos e premissas e em como Williamson ajustou o progresso de sua abordagem aos moldes institucionais de diferentes audiências. Dados de citações aos trabalhos de Williamson ajudam a...

O artigo apresenta os fundamentos teóricos da Economia dos Custos de Transação e faz um sumário das críticas feitas à mesma, apontando para uma agenda de pesquisa pluralista.

Inertia in academia sometimes obstructs the development of important insights. That is one reason for the specially long gap separating Coase's seminal paper [1937] that laid the foundations of current Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) and the efforts of scholars to develop his ideas. But as TCE...

Inertia in academia sometimes obstructs the development of important insights. That is one reason for the specially long gap separating Coase's seminal paper [1937] that laid the foundations of current Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) and the efforts of scholars to develop his ideas. But as TCE...

Metaphors are part of our daily lives as they help us understand the world. Economics, as with other areas of knowledge, cannot go without metaphors. Transaction Cost Economics (TCE)—a prominent theoretical framework on economic organisation—is no different: it has been built on a set of...