Oliver E. Williamson

114.0k citations
168 papers · 62.7k · 37 hit papers · h-index 70

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    • Innovation and Knowledge Management
    • Business Strategy and Innovation
    • International Business and FDI
  • Accounting top 0.02%
    • Corporate Finance and Governance

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Oliver E. Williamson

160 papers receiving 52.5k citations

Oliver E. Williamson's Hit Papers

Markets and Hierarchies: Some Elementary Considerations 2016 · 244 citations
2440+11+22Years since publication10002.0k3.0k

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Oliver E. Williamson
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  • Strategy and Management 28.8k
  • Accounting 13.7k
  • Management Information Systems 10.3k
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 8.0k
  • Economics and Econometrics 20.1k
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All Works

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Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and Antitrust Implications.
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19769115
2
Transaction-Cost Economics: The Governance of Contractual Relations
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19796176
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Comparative Economic Organization: The Analysis of Discrete Structural Alternatives
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19914574
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The economic institutions of capitalism firms, markets, relational contracting
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19874482
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Markets and Hierarchies
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19754358
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The Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach
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19813857
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The New Institutional Economics: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead
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20003676
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Calculativeness, Trust, and Economic Organization
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19931915
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Markets and hierarchies, analysis and antitrust implications : a study in the economics of internal organization
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19751536
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Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance
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19881495
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Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and Antitrust Implications.
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19771237
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Strategy research: governance and competence perspectives
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19991034
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The Modern Corporation: Origins, Evolution, Attributes.
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1981899
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Strategizing, economizing, and economic organization
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1991890
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The Theory of the Firm as Governance Structure: From Choice to Contract
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2002788
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The Methodology of Positive Economics
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2009780
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OUTSOURCING: TRANSACTION COST ECONOMICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT*
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2008745
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The Economics of Discretionary Behavior: Managerial Objectives in a Theory of the Firm
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1965695
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Transaction Cost Economics: How It Works; Where It is Headed
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1998672
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Hierarchical Control and Optimum Firm Size
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1967652

About Oliver E. Williamson

Oliver E. Williamson is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management, Accounting, Management Science and Operations Research and Management Information Systems, having authored 168 papers that have together received 62.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Economic Theory and Institutions (38 papers), Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems (24 papers), Business Strategy and Innovation (23 papers), Merger and Competition Analysis (21 papers), Economic theories and models (19 papers), Corporate Finance and Governance (17 papers), Auction Theory and Applications (11 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Strategy and Management (28.8k citations), Accounting (13.7k citations), Management Information Systems (10.3k citations), Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (8.0k citations) and Economics and Econometrics (20.1k citations). Oliver E. Williamson has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Frequent co-authors include D. O’Brien, William G. Ouchi, Armen A. Alchian, Joseph T. Mahoney, Michael Riordan, Joan O’Connell, Oliver Hart, Dennis W. Carlton, Jean Tirole and Carl Kaysen. Their work appears in journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, The Yale Law Journal, The Journal of Law Economics and Organization and The Economic Journal.

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