Transaction-Cost Economics: The Governance of Contractual Relations

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• Publication year

  1979

• Venue

  Journal law and economy

• Publication date

  1979-10-01

• Fields of study

  Economics, Political Science

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  DOI 10.1086/466942
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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