Standout Papers

Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and Antitrust Implications. 1976 2026 1992 2009 8.5k
  1. Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and Antitrust Implications. (1976)
    D. O’Brien, Oliver E. Williamson The Economic Journal
  2. Transaction-Cost Economics: The Governance of Contractual Relations (1979)
    Oliver E. Williamson The Journal of Law and Economics
  3. Comparative Economic Organization: The Analysis of Discrete Structural Alternatives (1991)
    Oliver E. Williamson Administrative Science Quarterly
  4. The Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach (1981)
    Oliver E. Williamson American Journal of Sociology
  5. The New Institutional Economics: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead (2000)
    Oliver E. Williamson Journal of Economic Literature
  6. Calculativeness, Trust, and Economic Organization (1993)
    Oliver E. Williamson The Journal of Law and Economics
  7. Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance (1988)
    Oliver E. Williamson The Journal of Finance
  8. Strategy research: governance and competence perspectives (1999)
    Oliver E. Williamson Strategic Management Journal
  9. The Modern Corporation: Origins, Evolution, Attributes. (1981)
    Oliver E. Williamson Journal of Economic Literature
  10. Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and Antitrust Implications. (1977)
    William G. Ouchi, Oliver E. Williamson Administrative Science Quarterly
  11. Strategizing, economizing, and economic organization (1991)
    Oliver E. Williamson Strategic Management Journal
  12. The Theory of the Firm as Governance Structure: From Choice to Contract (2002)
    Oliver E. Williamson The Journal of Economic Perspectives
  13. The Methodology of Positive Economics (2009)
    Uskali Mäki, Milton Friedman et al. Cambridge University Press eBooks
  14. OUTSOURCING: TRANSACTION COST ECONOMICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT* (2008)
    Oliver E. Williamson Journal of Supply Chain Management
  15. The Economics of Discretionary Behavior: Managerial Objectives in a Theory of the Firm (1965)
    Armen A. Alchian, Oliver E. Williamson Econometrica
  16. Transaction Cost Economics: How It Works; Where It is Headed (1998)
    Oliver E. Williamson De Economist
  17. Hierarchical Control and Optimum Firm Size (1967)
    Oliver E. Williamson Journal of Political Economy
  18. The Mechanisms of Governance (1997)
    Joseph T. Mahoney, Oliver E. Williamson Academy of Management Review
  19. Public and private bureaucracies: a transaction cost economics perspectives (1999)
    Oliver E. Williamson The Journal of Law Economics and Organization
  20. Franchise Bidding for Natural Monopolies-in General and with Respect to CATV (1976)
    Oliver E. Williamson The Bell Journal of Economics
  21. Transaction Cost Economics and Organization Theory (1993)
    Oliver E. Williamson Industrial and Corporate Change
  22. Asset specificity and economic organization (1985)
    Michael Riordan, Oliver E. Williamson International Journal of Industrial Organization
  23. The Economics of Governance (2005)
    Oliver E. Williamson American Economic Review
  24. Understanding the Employment Relation: The Analysis of Idiosyncratic Exchange (1975)
    Oliver E. Williamson, Michael L. Wachter et al. The Bell Journal of Economics
  25. Opportunism and its critics (1993)
    Oliver E. Williamson Managerial and Decision Economics
  26. The Economics of Discretionary Behavior: Managerial Objectives in a Theory of the Firm. (1965)
    Joan O’Connell, Oliver E. Williamson Economica
  27. The Nature of the Firm: Origins, Evolution, and Development. (1992)
    R. Rothschild, Oliver E. Williamson et al. The Economic Journal
  28. Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance (1988)
    Oliver E. Williamson The Journal of Finance
  29. Corporate Control and Business Behavior (1971)
    Carl Kaysen, Oliver E. Williamson University of Pennsylvania Law Review
  30. Economic Organization: Firms, Markets and Policy Control (1988)
    Aubrey Silberston, Oliver E. Williamson The Economic Journal
  31. Corporate Governance (1984)
    Oliver E. Williamson The Yale Law Journal

Immediate Impact

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Works of Oliver E. Williamson being referenced

The Methodology of Positive Economics
2009 StandoutNobel
The New Institutional Economics: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead
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Author Peers

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Oliver E. Williamson 15214 21600 10988 149 47.0k
James G. March 10042 30532 8759 160 64.7k
Daniel A. Levinthal 13212 30185 6134 101 45.2k
Walter W. Powell 6931 20520 6121 79 46.0k
David J. Teece 15905 46375 8345 196 66.5k
Bruce Kogut 8182 24478 7457 97 34.1k
Sidney G. Winter 15712 23734 4493 95 41.0k
Jay B. Barney 10755 39390 13149 163 65.1k
Michael A. Hitt 8745 30213 18542 318 50.4k
Donald C. Hambrick 6117 24691 24204 157 52.7k
Jeffrey Pfeffer 4766 17592 9611 242 50.7k

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