Oliver E. Williamson

112.6k citations
231 papers · 69.1k · 26 hit papers · h-index 74

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    • Business Strategy and Innovation
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    • Digital Platforms and Economics
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    • Corporate Finance and Governance

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Oliver E. Williamson

215 papers receiving 56.2k citations

Oliver E. Williamson's Hit Papers

Markets and Hierarchies: Some Elementary Considerations 2016 · 261 citations
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Oliver E. Williamson
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  • Strategy and Management 32.1k
  • Accounting 13.7k
  • Management Information Systems 11.3k
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 9.3k
  • Economics and Econometrics 21.4k
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All Works

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Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and Antitrust Implications.
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19769490
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Transaction-Cost Economics: The Governance of Contractual Relations
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19796303
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The economic institutions of capitalism firms, markets, relational contracting
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19854926
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Markets and Hierarchies
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19754763
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Comparative Economic Organization: The Analysis of Discrete Structural Alternatives
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19914749
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The Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach
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19814220
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The New Institutional Economics: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead
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20003894
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Calculativeness, Trust, and Economic Organization
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19932012
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Markets and hierarchies, analysis and antitrust implications : a study in the economics of internal organization
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19751688
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Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance
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19881354
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Credible Commitments: Using Hostages to Support Exchange
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19961113
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The Economic Institutions of Capitalism. Firms, Markets, Relational Contracting
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20071081
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Strategy research: governance and competence perspectives
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19991047
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Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and Antitrust Implications.
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19771042
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The Modern Corporation: Origins, Evolution, Attributes.
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1981964
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Strategizing, economizing, and economic organization
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1991953
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The Vertical Integration of Production Market Failure Considerations
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1999795
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The Theory of the Firm as Governance Structure: From Choice to Contract
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2002777
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OUTSOURCING: TRANSACTION COST ECONOMICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT*
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2008767
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Transaction Cost Economics: How It Works; Where It is Headed
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1998709

About Oliver E. Williamson

Oliver E. Williamson is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management, Accounting, Safety Research and Management Science and Operations Research, having authored 231 papers that have together received 69.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Economic Theory and Institutions (57 papers), Business Strategy and Innovation (30 papers), Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems (29 papers), Corporate Finance and Governance (27 papers), Economic theories and models (26 papers), Merger and Competition Analysis (24 papers), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (13 papers) and Auction Theory and Applications (12 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Strategy and Management (32.1k citations), Accounting (13.7k citations), Management Information Systems (11.3k citations), Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (9.3k citations) and Economics and Econometrics (21.4k citations). Oliver E. Williamson has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Daniel Patrick O'Brien, William G. Ouchi, Armen A. Alchian, Joseph T. Mahoney, Michael Riordan, Michael L. Wachter, Joan A. O'Connell, Jeffrey E. Harris, Carl Kaysen and Aubrey Silberston. Their work appears in journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, The Yale Law Journal, The Economic Journal and The Journal of Law Economics and Organization.

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