Business history as institutional history
本文重新审视钱德勒与威廉姆森（及新制度经济学）的交集，指出两人对公司的建模方式不同，并试图为后钱德勒时代的商业史勾勒一条融合韦伯、卡内基学派和科斯教训的路径。
This paper will revisit the intersection of Alfred Chandler with Oliver Williamson (and the New Institutional Economics more generally) and attempt to draw lessons from it. I will argue that despite their similar influences, both from the Carnegie School and more generally from the varied currents of post-war managerialism, Chandler and Williamson modelled the corporation quite differently. On the one hand, their disagreement had what I view as a salutary effect on the economics of organisation by lending the imprimatur of Chandler to the capabilities approach. On the other hand, Chandler’s rejection of the NIE also arguably threw out the Coasean baby with the Williamsonian – or, more precisely, the asset-specificity – bathwater. I attempt to outline a path for post-Chandlerian business history that retains the lessons of Weber and the Carnegie School while adding the lessons of Ronald Coase.