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The secret life of mundane transaction costs
Langlois, Richard N. (contributor) - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003256005
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Technologies, products and organization in the innovating firm: what Adam Smith tells us and Joseph Schumpeter doesn't
Pavitt, Keith - In: Understanding industrial and corporate change, (pp. 267-285). 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002379168
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Knowledge specialization and direction : towards an opportunism-independent theory of the firm
Love, James - 1999
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Specialization, product development, evolution of the institution of the firm, and economic growth
Yang, Xiaokai; Borland, Jeff - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000845938
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No Mere Tautology : The Division of Labor is Limited by the Division of Labor
Smyth, Andrew - 2019
We explore the intersection of growth theory and the theory of the firm with an experiment. Economic growth is possible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012901112
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The Division of Labour and the Mainstream Theory of the Firm
Walker, Paul - 2019
mainstream economic theory of the firm. The notion of the division of labour goes back, at least, to ancient India, the ancient … Greeks and the ancient Chinese but it took two thousand years before the division of labour was used to create a theory of … the firm. It was only in the 20th century that such a theory started to be developed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012872139
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R&D Reduces Firms' Incentives to Create Divisions
Tesoriere, Antonio - 2017
I study a game in which two firms create independent divisions, then they choose whether to do R&D so as to reduce their divisions' marginal costs, and then the divisions compete in the market. I provide necessary and sufficient conditions under which the game has an equilibrium in pure...
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The Theory of Irrelevance of the Size of the Firm
Liu, Pak Wai; Yang, Xiaokai - 2014
This paper formalizes Cheung, Coase, Stigler, and Young's theory of irrelevance of the size of the firm. This theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014141316
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Fixed Cost Assumptions in Industrialisation Theories
Gans, Joshua S. - 1998
A recent literature has demonstrated that fixed costs at the firm level can lead to strategic complementarities and hence, coordination failure in industrialisation across sectors. The existence of such complementarities appears to hinge critically on the nature of these fixed costs -- that is,...
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Specialization and the firm in Renaissance Italian art
Piano, Ennio - In: Journal of cultural economics 46 (2022) 4, pp. 659-697
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