Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the operationalization of transaction cost
economics. Vertical integration, an understanding of which serves as a paradigm for hel** …

Purpose Much of the contemporary methodological literature tends to be self-referential and
frequently ignorant of the breadth and depth of philosophical assumptions underpinning …

Integrating both previously published and new material," the pages of this book… outline the
theory of rational-emotive psychotherapy…[and] present the clinician with some of the main …

ABSTRACT A combined treatment of corporate finance and corporate governance is herein
proposed. Debt and equity are treated not mainly as alternative financial instruments, but …

The ascendancy of neoliberalism and the associated discourses of 'new public
management', during the 1980s and 1990s has produced a fundamental shift in the way …

Compared to early expectations, the process of European integration has resulted in a
paradox: frustration without disintegration and resilience without progress. The article …

The institutional grammar introduced here is based on a view that institutions are enduring
regularities of human action in situations structured by rules, norms, and shared strategies …

In the extant organizational, management, and strategy literatures there are now frequent
calls for microfoundations. However, there is little consensus on what microfoundations are …

The concept of 'resilience'was first adopted within systems ecology in the 1970s, where it
marked a move away from the homeostasis of Cold War resource management toward the …

This paper examines the optimization problem of firm and market organization in which both
production cost and transaction cost differences are expressed as a function of asset …