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| Tekijä: | Noorderhaven, N. G. |
| Otsikko: | The problem of contract enforcement in economic organization theory |
| Lehti: | Organization Studies
1992 : VOL. 13:2, p.229-243 |
| Asiasana: | CONTRACTS ORGANIZATION THEORY ECONOMIC THEORY LAW |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | The newly developed economic theories of organization - unlike sociological theories of organization - explicitly employ an individual utility maximization assumption. It is argued that this assumption, if used as in agency theory, entails logical inconsistencies and it is a barrier to explaining the existence of the kind of agreements that purportedly form the basis of organizations. A classificatory scheme of four "sources of obligation" is proposed for the analysis of the basis of agreements. Taking all four sources into consideration can help to avoid one-sided attention to, for example, formal, legally enforceable agreements. The findings suggest that the scheme has two basic dimensions at the root. |
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