FIRM, MARKET OR HYBRID - ON THE ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF CONTRACTING FORMS. THE TRANSACTION COST ECONOMICS APPROACH 2400-PLSM060B
Theoretical issues:
1. Organizational economics - introduction
2. The economics of organization in a historical perspective
3. Make or buy decisions – a survey of models describing the choices between various organizational forms (theories of the firm)
4. Organizational economic in brief: organizational design, natural system approaches, contingency theory, Carnegie School and H. Simon, and others
5. Organizational theory in new institutional economics
6. Williamsonian transaction cost economics
Methodological issues:
1. How to write a bachelor dissertation?
2. How to prepare an empirical study?
During the course some theoretical issues will be ilustrated by empirical cases.
Szacunkowy nakład pracy studenta: 3ECTS x 25h = 75h
(K) - godziny kontaktowe (S) - godziny pracy samodzielnej
wykład (zajęcia): 0h (K) 0h (S)
ćwiczenia (zajęcia): 0h (K) 0h (S)
egzamin: 0h (K) 0h (S)
konsultacje: 10h (K) 0h (S)
przygotowanie do ćwiczeń: 0h (K) 0h (S)
przygotowanie do wykładów: 0h (K) 0h (S)
przygotowanie do kolokwium: 0h (K) 0h (S)
przygotowanie do egzaminu: 0h (K) 0h (S)
sem. mgr: 30h (K) 35h (S)
Razem: 40h (K) + 35h (S) = 75h
Course coordinators
Type of course
Prerequisites (description)
Learning outcomes
After the completion of the seminar student can identify the determinants of a given organizational form; also he is able to use the transaction cost economics approach while proposing alternative governance modes.
Students will learn how to write a M.Sc. Thesis.
KW01, KW02, KW03, KU01, KU02, KU03, KK01, KK02, KK03
Assessment criteria
Students will be evaluated on the basis of dissertation's conspect (first semester) and the quality of the dissertation (second/third semester).
Bibliography
Must-read: O. Williamson (1985), The Economic Institutions of Capitalism, The Free Press, New York (available also in Polish transalation from 1998).
Hardt Ł. (2009), Ekonomia kosztów transakcyjnych – geneza i kierunki rozwoju, WUW, Warszawa (rozdz. 3, 4, 5)
Additional readings will be suggested during the course.