[eng] The aim of the article is to interpret the recent evolution of coordination mechanisms governing subcontracting relations, particularly extension of the duration of the agreement between the two contracting parties. Using tools of analysis based on the theory of incentives, the author...

[fre] Pour analyser les structures de gouvernement potentielles entre les banques et les entreprises, les auteurs étudient la pertinence du concept de quasi-intégration pour caractériser la relation banque-entreprise. Trois formes pures de gouvernement banque-entreprise sont ainsi mises en...

[eng] Contract, authority and trust : can the subcontracting relationship be compared with the employment relationship ?. . The aim of the article is to compare the subcontracting relationship with the employer/ employee relationship through the study of the coordination mechanisms wich...

[fre] L'apport de la théorie des organisations à la conception néo-institutionnelle de la firme. Une relecture des travaux de O.E. Williamson. . L'auteur s'interroge dans ce texte sur l'apport de la théorie des organisations à la conception néo-institutionnelle de la firme, en procédant...

This paper assesses how two traditions, namely the economics of contracts and the economics of conventions, incorporate the legal framework of the labor relation in their analysis of the employment relationship. A comparison of these views not only offers different conceptions of the employment...

Given the distinction between power and authority, our aim in this paper is to set forth a framework for the analysis of the authority relation and the associated commanding within the firm based on the economics of convention. We begin by building a general model of the ?authority convention,?...

For about twenty years, the notion of authority has been put forward again into the analysis of employment relationship, especially concerning contracts incompleteness. This article has two purposes. First, it aims at giving an assessment of the famous controversy between Coase and...

Going back to the initial question raised by Coase in his 1937 article, we discuss in this paper the firm boundary problem by analyzing a specific organizational form, the network-firm. We first focus on the functioning of the network-firm, taking a specific interest in the incentive and...

For about twenty years, the notion of authority has been put forward again into the analysis of employment relationship, especially concerning contracts incompleteness. This article has two purposes. First, it aims at giving an assessment of the famous controversy between Coase and...

In the last twenty years, through a growing awareness of contractual incompleteness, the concept of authority has regained primacy in the analysis of the employment relationship. This article pursues two goals. First, we assess the famous controversy between Coase and Alchian and Demsetz via an...