论坛主题：Property Rights and the Nature of the Firm及其可能的扩展方向研讨会

讲座时间：2019年4月30日（周二）下午14:30-16:30

主持人：蔡晓慧博士

讲座地点：澳门十大正规网站排行榜422会议室

文章基本信息：Abstract: This paper provides a framework for addressing the question of when transactions should be carried out within a firm and when through the market. Following Grossman and Hart, we identify a firm with the assets that its owners control. We argue that the crucial difference for party 1 between owning a firm (integration) and contracting for a service from another party 2 who owns this firm (nonintegration) is that, under integration, party 1 can selectively fire the workers of the firm (including party 2), whereas under nonintegration he can "fire" (i.e., stop dealing with) only the entire firm: the combination of party 2, the workers, and the firm's assets. We use this idea to study how changes in ownership affect the incentives of employees as well as those of owner-managers. Our frame- work is broad enough to encompass more general control structures than simple ownership: for example, partnerships and worker and consumer cooperatives all emerge as special cases.

Author(s): Oliver Hart and John Moore

Source: Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 98, No. 6 (Dec., 1990), pp. 1119-1158

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