Transactions and Organizational Forms: A Re-analysis
基于制度经济学传统，提出一个概念框架来解释不同组织形式的区别及其在未来不确定性下的转变，对组织理论与设计有启示。
This paper is an attempt to extend and amplify the concept of transaction and its relation to alternative organizational forms. Based on the institutional economics tradition of Commons (1924), the economics of internal organizations (Williamson 1975), and recent developments in organization theory (Ouchi 1980), it proposes a conceptual scheme to explain what distinguishes organizational forms and the transformation of these forms under the condition of future uncertainty. The implications of this framework for organization theory and design are also discussed.