Claude Ménard
YOU?
Author Swipe
View article: Hybrids and Other Challenges in Organizational Economics
Hybrids and Other Challenges in Organizational Economics Open
How can we explain the variety and resilience of non-standard arrangements through which agents organize the transactions that support their economic activities? This chapter proposes an extended and inclusive transaction cost framework th…
View article: Unbundling institutions: the case for meso-institutions
Unbundling institutions: the case for meso-institutions Open
The last decades have seen important progress in the economic analysis of institutions, with increasing concern about the need to ‘unbundle’ this concept and the diversity of situations it covers. It is so because of the complexity of the …
View article: Introduction: Handbook of New Institutional Economics
Introduction: Handbook of New Institutional Economics Open
New institutional economics (NIE) studies the rules and norms that humans devise to reduce uncertainty and control their environment, both formal institutions, such as written contracts and laws, and informal institutions, such as societal…
View article: Understanding the roles of meso-institutions: a comparative approach to urban water provision in seven Asian cities
Understanding the roles of meso-institutions: a comparative approach to urban water provision in seven Asian cities Open
This article is about a partially untold story: the central role played by intermediate or ‘meso’ institutions in urban water supply. Three central functions are identified: translating policies and laws into operational targets; monitorin…
View article: Governing food safety through meso‐institutions: A cross‐country analysis of the dairy sector
Governing food safety through meso‐institutions: A cross‐country analysis of the dairy sector Open
This article builds on new institutional economics to characterize the functions played by meso‐institutions in bridging the gap between the macro‐institutional layer at which general rules are established and the micro‐institutional layer…
View article: Hybrids: where are we?
Hybrids: where are we? Open
We owe Williamson for the formal introduction of hybrid organizations as essential building blocks in ‘the institutional structure of production’. The analysis of these institutional arrangements, which culminated in The Mechanisms of Gove…
View article: Will emerging local supply chains be resilient?
Will emerging local supply chains be resilient? Open
In France, as in many other countries, one immediate impact of the coronavirus pandemic has been to give a strong impulse to the development of short supply chains in the agri-food sector, chains that are part of the more general hybrid ty…
View article: Managing critical services through hybrid arrangements
Managing critical services through hybrid arrangements Open
Purpose Building on the literature of hybrids in the context of public organizations, this paper aims to discuss under which conditions hybrids can adequately provide “critical services”, a subset of public services characterized by their …
View article: Introduction to A Research Agenda for New Institutional Economics
Introduction to A Research Agenda for New Institutional Economics Open
When New Institutional Economics (NIE) first appeared on the scholarly scene in the early 1970s, it was a transformative movement. NIE aimed to radically alter orthodox economics by showing that institutions are multidimensional and matter…
View article: The curse of antitrust facing bilateral monopoly: Is regulation hopeless?
The curse of antitrust facing bilateral monopoly: Is regulation hopeless? Open
This paper is about the challenges that antitrust authorities face when dealing with bilateral monopolies. The curse of antitrust refers to traps threatening the efficient applicability of antitrust policies in these situations. Standard t…
View article: Research frontiers of new institutional economics
Research frontiers of new institutional economics Open
International audience
View article: 1. Finding our way in the jungle: insights from organization theory
1. Finding our way in the jungle: insights from organization theory Open
This contribution is about the variety of modalities of coordination of economic activities, with application to the agri-food sector. Building on recent developments in organization theory and institutional analysis, it explores two dimen…
View article: Discrete institutional alternatives: Theoretical and policy issues (Celebrating the 80 th anniversary of Ronald Coase's “Nature of the Firm”)
Discrete institutional alternatives: Theoretical and policy issues (Celebrating the 80 th anniversary of Ronald Coase's “Nature of the Firm”) Open
This paper addresses the comparative analysis of discrete institutional alternatives in organizing transactions among distinct economic entities. The theoretical framework for understanding this issue was introduced by Ronald Coase 80 year…
View article: What approach to property rights?
What approach to property rights? Open
In his rich contribution, Arruñada (2017) debates what institutions are needed to enforce complex ‘sequential’ transactions embedded in interdependent private contracts, and more specifically discusses the conditions of their efficiency wh…
View article: Introduction
Introduction Open
When the Committee awarded The sveriges riksbank prize in economic sciences in memory of alfred nobel to ronald h.Coase in 1991, they referred to his two most cited papers 'The nature of the firm ' (1937a) and 'The problem of social cost '…
View article: Ronald H. Coase and the Economics of Network Infrastructures
Ronald H. Coase and the Economics of Network Infrastructures Open
Ronald H. Coase was one of the most innovative and provocative economists of the twentieth century. Besides his best known papers on ‘The Nature of the Firm’ and ‘The Problem of Social Cost’, he had a major role in the development of the f…