A Tribute to Oliver Williamson: Williamson's Impact on the Theory and Practice of Management
回顾了威廉姆森的交易成本经济学框架如何帮助管理者在组织设计和战略决策中提升效率、降低合同风险并实现盈利，对管理理论与实践有重要影响。
Although unknown to most CEOs, at least until his recent recognition by the Nobel Economics Prize Committee, Oliver Williamson has had a large impact on management theory and practice. There are many organization and strategy questions where his research is highly relevant. Williamson has spent much of his career trying to understand how things ought to be organized to promote efficiency, minimize manageable contractual risk, and achieve profitability. He developed transaction cost economics as a framework to assist managers in making critical strategic decisions.