1984 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Efficient Labour Organization
Author : Oliver E. Williamson
Published in: Firms, Organization and Labour
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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There are two general approaches to the study of efficient labour organization. The one is in the neo-classical tradition which emphasizes incentives, efficient risk-bearing, factor proportion distortions, and the like. The second has more recent origins. It emphasizes the contracting process and the transaction costs that are associated therewith. A comparative institutional assessment of alternative governance structures is attempted, the object being to align the attributes of transactions with those of governance structures in a discriminating (mainly transactions costs economizing) way.