Coase Encounters and Formal Models: Taking Gibbons Seriously
回应吉本斯关于形式模型澄清作用的观点，探讨理性选择在组织情境中的局限，主张将经济与非经济因素结合作为理论目标。
While accepting Robert Gibbons' case for the clarifying role of formal models, this comment explores the role of rational choice accounts in organizational settings—including the French example that Gibbons cites—whose context evolves in ways exogenous to the rational action of individuals. Articulation of economic and noneconomic concerns in situations in which context and action evolve together is suggested as the main theoretical goal, one that will require arguments more complex than those of current sociology or economics.