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Transaction costCorporate governanceIndustrial organizationBusinessNew institutional economicsOrganizational economicsEconomicsMicroeconomicsLaw and economicsFinance
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- 1979
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- 22
- Issue
- 2
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- 233-261
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Oliver E. Williamson
(1979).
Transaction-Cost Economics: The Governance of Contractual Relations.
The Journal of Law and Economics
, 22
(2)
, 233-261.
https://doi.org/10.1086/466942
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- DOI
- 10.1086/466942