Economic institutions of strategy [electronic resource] / edited by Jackson A. Nickerson, Brian S. Silverman.

The future of interfirm contract research : opportunities based on prior research and nontraditional tools / Libby Weber, Kyle J. Mayer, Rui Wu -- Reprinted article putting patents in context : exploring knowledge transfer from MIT / Ajay K. Agrawal, Rebecca Henderson -- Alliances and performance / Joanne E. Oxley -- Reprinted article appropriability hazards and governance in strategic alliances : a transaction cost approach / Joanne E. Oxley -- A strategic look at the organizational form of franchising / Steven C. Michael, Janet E.L. Bercovitz -- Internal organization from a transaction cost perspective / Nicholas S. Argyres -- Organizational economics insights from acquisitions research / Jeffrey J. Reuer -- Limits to the scale and scope of the firm / Todd R. Zenger, Jeffrey Xiaofei Huang -- Diversification, industry structure, and firm strategy : an organizational economics perspective / Peter G. Klein, Lasse B. Lien -- Transaction costs in technology transfer and implications for strategy / Ajay K. Agrawal -- Intellectual property regimes and firm strategy : putting Hall and Ziedonis (2001) in perspective / Rosemarie H. Ziedonis -- Reprinted article the patent paradox revisited : an empirical study of patenting in the U.S. semiconductor industry, 1979-1995 / Bronwyn H. Hall, Rosemarie H. Ziedonis -- Value creation and appropriation through geographic strategy : evidence from foreign direct investment / Miguel A. Ramos, J. Myles Shaver -- Strategic organization of R&D / Bruno Cassiman, Alfonso Gambardella -- Beyond the economic institutions of strategy : strategic responses to institutional variation / Witold J. Henisz -- Reprinted article the institutional environment for multinational investment / Witold J. Henisz -- Integrated political strategy / John M. de Figueiredo -- Contracting with governments / Eric Brousseau, St�phane Saussier -- New frontiers in strategic management of organizational change / Jackson A. Nickerson, Brian S. Silverman -- Opportunities and new business models : transaction cost and property rights perspectives on entrepreneurship / Nils Stieglitz, Nicolai J. Foss -- The problem solving perspective : a strategic approach to understanding environment and organization / Michael J. Leiblein, Jeffrey T. Macher -- Foreword to economic institutions of strategy / Oliver E. Williamson -- Introduction / Jackson A. Nickerson, Brian S. Silverman.

Since the publication of Oliver Williamson's Economic Institutions of Capitalism in 1985, new institutional economics approaches have increasingly been used to understand strategic challenges. Economic Institutions of Strategy (EIS) offers an interconnected set of papers that reviews and extends the economic institutional approach to business and corporate strategy bringing together the disparate strands of new institutional economics-based strategy research in a single comprehensive source. The contributors to this volume focus on new institutional economics' insights regarding diversification, alliances, franchising, geographic location, innovation, and other strategic choices. Each contributor uses either a single influential article - with excerpts reprinted - or a survey of the literature to ask and answer three questions: What is the current state of the art in new institutional economics' contribution to fundamental strategic questions? Where has this approach succeeded most, and what gaps remain?.

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