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Efficient Labour Organization

In: Firms, Organization and Labour

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  • Oliver E. Williamson

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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.

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  • Oliver E. Williamson, 1984. "Efficient Labour Organization," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Frank H. Stephen (ed.), Firms, Organization and Labour, chapter 6, pages 87-118, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-06663-6_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-06663-6_6
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    1. Albert Martin & Marcus Falke & Christian Gade, 2007. "The Assessment of the Employment Relationship by Civil Servants. Theoretical and Empirical Insights from a Study in District Courts in Lower Saxony," management revue - Socio-Economic Studies, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, vol. 18(3), pages 293-321.
    2. David J. Storey & Robert Watson & Pooran Wynarczyk, 1994. "Regional Labour Market Influences on Managerial Remuneration in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in England: An Empirical Analysis," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 31(8), pages 1407-1418, October.
    3. Grazia Ietto-Gillies, 2011. "Strategies of Transnational Companies in the Context of the Governance Systems of Nation-states," Chapters, in: Mehmet Ugur & David Sunderland (ed.), Does Economic Governance Matter?, chapter 5, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    4. Werner Nienhueser, 2011. "Empirical Research on Human Resource Management as a Production of Ideology," management revue - Socio-Economic Studies, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, vol. 22(4), pages 367-393.
    5. Werner Nienhueser, 2004. "Political [Personnel] Economy ?a Political Economy Perspective to Explain Different Forms of Human Resource Management Strategies," management revue - Socio-Economic Studies, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, vol. 15(2), pages 228-248.
    6. Hohendanner, Christian & Janik, Florian, 2008. "Praktika und betriebliche Personalpolitik : Verbreitung und Nutzungsintensität von Praktika in deutschen Betrieben (Internships and personnel policy : dispersion and usage of internships in German fir," Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for Labour Market Research, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany], vol. 41(4), pages 471-487.
    7. Hohendanner, Christian & Janik, Florian, 2008. "Praktika und betriebliche Personalpolitik : Verbreitung und Nutzungsintensität von Praktika in deutschen Betrieben (Internships and personnel policy : dispersion and usage of internships in German fir," Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for Labour Market Research, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany], vol. 41(4), pages 471-487.
    8. Grazia Ietto-Gillies, 2011. "The Integration and Fragmentation Roles of Transnational Companies," Chapters, in: Miroslav N. Jovanović (ed.), International Handbook on the Economics of Integration, Volume III, chapter 3, Edward Elgar Publishing.

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