The Contractual Nature of the Firm

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 01 Apr 1983 United States English Publisher:University of Chicago PressJournal:The Journal of Law and Economics, volume 26, pages 1-21 (issn: 0022-2186, eissn: 1537-5285,

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Authors: Cheung, Steven N. S.;

doi: 10.1086/467023

The Contractual Nature of the Firm

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* For their helpful comments I am grateful to Armen A. Alchian, Yoram Barzel, Keith Leffler, John S. McGee, and Dean Worcester. 1 Ronald H. Coase, The Nature of the Firm, 4 Economica 386 (1937). The paper, however, was written several years earlier (see note 3 infra). 2 The Social Sciences Citation Index provides the following information. Breaking down the period of 1966-80 into three five-year periods, the total citations of Coase's "firm" paper for each subperiod are: 1966-70, 17 citations; 1971-75, 47 citations; and 1976-80, 105 citations.

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Law

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