Oliver E. Williamson (1932-)

Williamson es un destacado teórico del nuevo institucionalismo. Doctorado por la Carnegie-Mellon University en 1963 es actualmente profesor de "Economics and Law" en la Universidad de California en Berkeley. 

Es el autor del concepto de "mecanismos de gobierno" para referirse a los sistemas de control del riesgo asociado a cualquier transacción. Sus campos principales de investigación son la economía de las instituciones, la estrategia de las organizaciones, la burocracia, la política y los costes de transacción.

Coordenadas:

Williamson, Oliver E. 
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Economics
549 Evans Hall # 3880
Berkeley, CA 94720-3880 

Email: owilliam@haas.berkeley.edu 

• "Managerial Discretion and Business Behavior", 1963, AER 
• The Economics of Discretionary Behavior: Managerial objectives in a theory of the firm, 1964. 
• "Economics as an Anti-Trust Defense: The welfare trade-offs", 1968, AER 
• Corporate Control and Business Behavior: An inquiry into the effects of organization form on enterprise behavior, 1970. 
• "The Vertical Integration of Production: market failure considerations", 1971, AER 
• "Markets and Hierarchies: Some elementary considerations", 1973, AER 
• Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and antitrust implications, 1975. 
• "Franchise Bidding for Natural Monopolies: in general and with respect to CATV", 1976, Bell JE 
• "Transaction Cost Economics: The governance of contractual relations", 1979, J Law Econ 
• "The Economics of Organization: The transaction cost approach", 1981, American J of Sociology 
• "Credible Commitments: Using hostages to support exchange", 1983, AER 
• The Economic Institutions of Capitalism, 1985. 
• "Vertical Integration and Related Variations on a Transaction- Cost Economics Theme", 1986, en Stiglitz and Mathewson, editores, New Developments in the Analysis of Market Structure 
• "Transaction Cost Economcs", 1987, JEBO 
• "Economics and Sociology: Promoting a dialog", 1988, en Farkas and England, editores, Industries, Firms and Jobs 
• "A Comparison of Alternative Approaches to Economic Organization", 1990, J of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 
• Organization theory : from Chester Barnard to the present and beyond., 1990. 
• "The Logic of Economic Organization", 1991, en Williamson y Winter, editores, Nature of the Firm 
• "Economic Institutions: Spontaneous and intentional governance", 1991, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 
• "Markets, hierarchies, and the modern corporation: an unfolding perspective", 1993, JEBO 
• The Mechanisms of Governance, 1996.