Contracts and Commitment: Economic and Sociological Perspectives on Employment Relations
提出了一个整合经济学与社会学视角的雇佣关系合同模型，利用美日制造业的大规模数据验证了交易成本和代理理论的预测，并指出需要补充基于政治、文化等制度差异的社会学解释。
This paper proposes a contract model of employment relations that integrates insights from economic and sociological perspectives on labor market transactions. The utility of the contract model is illustrated empirically using a large data set on organizations and their employees in U.S. and Japanese manufacturing industries. The results are consistent with many transaction cost and agency theory predictions, though they also indicate the need to supplement these economic theories with sociological explanations based on political, cultural, and other institutional differences.