Deindustrialisation and business organisation: an institutionalist critique of the natural selection analogy
从制度主义视角批判了经济学中常用的自然选择类比,认为基于交易成本的分析忽略了非均衡选择和多市场环境导致的制度缺陷,并探讨了去工业化背景下生产控制问题。
This paper argues that an institutionalist perspective on an economy can enrich the conventional sector or industry based analysis. It draws on the concepts of transaction cost economics, looking at the measurement branch as well as the governance branch. It argues that the natural selection analogy underpinning this approach has been underresearched. The introduction of disequilibrium selection processes and multimarket environments means that the resulting institutional arrangements may possess important defects that may be linked to economywide structural disequilibrium. The organizational perspective opens up the issue of control of production, which is expressed in concerns over "screw-driver" firms. Copyright 1990 by Oxford University Press.