Access Statistics for Richard N. Langlois

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Antitrust: Where Did It Come from and What Did It Mean? 0 0 0 256 4 5 7 175
Bursting Boilers and the Federal Power Redux: The Evolution of Safety on the Western Rivers 0 0 0 162 0 1 4 1,705
Business Groups and the Natural State 0 1 2 348 2 4 6 715
Business History as Institutional History 0 2 96 96 3 8 59 59
Capabilities and Coherence in Firms and Markets 0 0 1 39 0 0 4 60
Capabilities and Governance the Rebirth of Production in the Theory of Economic Organization 0 1 2 882 2 8 12 2,601
Capabilities and Vertical Disintegration in Process Technology: The Case of Semiconductor Fabrication Equipment 0 0 0 17 1 3 4 34
Capabilities and the Theory of the Firm 0 0 0 75 1 2 3 84
Chandler in a Larger Frame: Markets, Transaction Costs, and Organizational Form in History 0 0 0 1,051 2 4 5 1,900
Class Attendance, PowerPoint Slides and Learning Outcomes 0 0 0 162 1 1 7 659
Cognition and Capabilities: Opportunities Seized and Missed in the History of the Computer Industry 0 0 0 19 1 2 2 27
Cognitive Comparative Advantage and the Organization of Work: Lessons from Herbert Simon's Vision of the Future 0 0 0 609 2 3 5 1,572
Competition through Institutional Form: the Case of Cluster Tool Standards 0 0 0 443 1 1 2 1,017
Disintermediation: the Rise of the Personal Computer and the Internet in the Late Twentieth Century 0 2 3 88 2 11 20 144
Do Firms Plan? 0 0 0 13 2 4 6 29
Economic Institutions and the Boundaries of the Firm: The Case of Business Groups 0 0 1 422 1 3 8 762
Economics as a Process, Notes on the "New Institutional Economics" 0 0 0 186 1 1 2 562
Edith Penrose: Seeing into the “Insides” of the Firm 0 1 52 68 4 7 39 62
Entrepreneurship and Knowledge 0 0 0 64 0 0 0 225
Fission, Forking, and Fine Tuning 0 0 0 62 2 4 7 161
Frank Knight and the Problem of the Twentieth Century 3 3 6 161 11 13 21 143
Hunting the Big Five: Twenty-first Century Antitrust in Historical Perspective 0 0 0 214 1 4 8 195
Identity, Religion, and the State: the Origin of Theocracy 0 0 2 70 6 8 25 210
Imprisoning Complexity in Modules 0 0 3 27 3 8 15 54
Innovation Processes and Industrial Districts 0 0 2 521 1 6 9 1,315
Innovation, Networks, and Vertical Integration 0 0 0 48 7 9 10 75
Institutions for Getting Out of the Way: A Comment on McCloskey 0 0 0 134 2 5 5 132
Institutions, Inertia, and Changing Industrial Leadership 0 0 0 18 2 3 3 33
Internal Organization In a Dynamic Context: Some Theoretical Considerations 0 0 0 56 0 2 3 404
Knowledge, Consumption, and Endogenous Growth 0 0 0 599 1 1 2 1,479
Memes and Myths of Antitrust 0 0 1 16 3 5 12 16
Modularity in Technology, Organization, and Society 0 0 0 634 4 7 8 1,459
Modularity, Identity, and the Constitutional Diagonal 0 0 1 5 0 1 8 14
Of Hackers and Hairdressers: Modularity and the Organizational Economics of Open-source Collaboration 0 0 0 111 0 1 1 353
Organizing the Electronic Century 0 0 0 390 1 4 6 976
R&D and the American Corporation before World War II 0 0 2 113 1 1 3 179
Schumpeter and the Obsolescence of the Entrepreneur 0 0 0 995 1 1 3 2,468
Strategy and Circumstance: the Response of American Firms to Japanese Competition in Semiconductors, 1980-1995 0 0 2 326 2 4 10 872
Subjective Probability and Subjective Economics 0 0 0 95 0 0 0 449
Systems Theory, Knowledge and the Social Sciences and on the Reception of Noise: A Rejoiner 0 0 0 61 3 6 7 492
Teaching Economical Writing in the Age of AI: A Process-Based Framework 2 13 98 98 12 43 220 220
Technological Standards, Innovation, and Essential Facilities: Toward a Schumpeterian Post-Chicago Approach 0 1 1 533 0 2 3 1,337
The Coevolution of Technology and Organization in the Transition to the Factory System 0 0 0 367 1 2 6 1,631
The Corporation Is Not a Nexus of Contracts. It’s an iPhone 0 0 0 112 1 2 3 234
The Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm and the Theory of the Entrepreneurial Firm 0 1 1 1,897 3 8 9 8,132
The Federal Government Role in the Development of the American Software Industry: An Assessment 0 1 2 15 3 5 8 29
The Fisher Body Case and Organizational Economics 0 0 9 179 3 15 46 597
The Institutional Approach to Economic History: Connecting the Two Strands 0 1 2 329 3 4 6 268
The Institutional Revolution: A Review Essay 0 1 2 334 1 3 4 307
The Secret Life of Mundane Transaction Costs 0 0 0 566 1 1 2 1,479
The Vanishing Hand: the Changing Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism 0 0 0 1,262 4 9 10 2,473
The Vanishing Hand: the Changing Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism 0 0 0 934 3 3 7 3,348
Why Are There Firms 0 0 0 121 0 1 1 378
“An Elephants’ Graveyard”: the Deregulation of American Industry in the Late Twentieth Century 0 0 1 109 4 7 11 116
Total Working Papers 5 28 292 16,512 120 266 697 44,420
10 registered items for which data could not be found


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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Book Review: THE SOURCES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH, by Nelson, R.R., Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 138
Business groups and the natural state 0 0 1 27 4 6 11 203
Business organization and the myth of the market economy: William Lazonick, (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1991) pp. xiv + 372, $39.95 (cloth), $15.95 (paper) 0 0 2 176 3 4 8 633
Capabilities and Governance: The Rebirth of Production in the Theory of Economic Organization 0 0 2 10 0 1 6 47
Chandler in a Larger Frame: Markets, Transaction Costs, and Organizational Form in History 0 0 0 6 0 5 7 30
Cognition, Redundancy, And Learning In Organizations 0 0 0 10 2 5 7 55
Cognitive comparative advantage and the organization of work: Lessons from Herbert Simon's vision of the future 0 0 0 117 1 2 2 314
Comment on 'Technological Revolutions and the Evolution of Industrial Structures' (by Giovanni Dosi, Alfonso Gambardella, Marco Grazzi, and Luigi Orsenigo) 0 0 0 30 2 3 3 143
Cost-Benefit Analysis, Environmentalism, and Rights 0 0 0 7 1 2 5 67
Do firms plan? 0 1 1 19 3 5 6 72
Evolutionary Theories of Economic and Technological Change. Edited by P. Paolo Saviotti and J. Stanley Metcalfe. Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1991. Pp. ix, 277. $36.00 0 0 0 25 0 2 4 99
Explaining Vertical Integration: Lessons from the American Automobile Industry 0 0 0 99 0 3 5 270
External Economies and Economic Progress: The Case of the Microcomputer Industry 0 1 1 4 0 4 6 34
Fission, forking and fine tuning 0 0 1 3 0 2 4 31
Frank Knight on Risk, Uncertainty, and the Firm: A New Interpretation 0 0 0 0 6 10 16 1,999
IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems. ByEmerson W. Pugh, Lyle R. Johnson, and John H. Palmer. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991. xx + 810 pp. Charts, illustrations, appendixes, notes, references, and index. $37.50 1 2 3 37 2 4 6 91
Identity, religion, and the state: The origin of theocracy 1 1 1 4 1 3 9 51
Innovation, networks, and vertical integration 0 0 1 226 0 4 10 573
Institutions for getting out of the way 0 0 0 22 2 2 2 46
Introduction to the Oliver E. Williamson memorial issue 0 0 3 5 1 3 8 12
Kirznerian Entrepreneurship and The Nature of The Firm 0 0 0 31 0 2 3 137
Knowledge and Rationality in the Austrian School: An Analytical Survey 0 0 0 77 0 1 4 198
La Sémantique économique en question, Christian Schmidt, Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1985, 231 pages 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 37
Modularity in technology and organization 1 1 2 299 3 7 10 752
Modularity, identity, and the constitutional diagonal 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 4
Networks and innovation in a modular system: Lessons from the microcomputer and stereo component industries 0 0 2 432 1 7 13 1,136
Of Hackers and Hairdressers: Modularity and the Organizational Economics of Open-source Collaboration 0 0 0 99 0 1 2 314
Organizations and Language Games 0 0 0 5 4 5 6 37
Personal Capitalism as Charismatic Authority: The Organizational Economics of a Weberian Concept 0 0 0 1 0 3 5 628
Reviews 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 46
Spinning off and spinning on(?): the federal government role in the development of the US computer software industry 0 1 4 152 1 2 9 322
Strategy and circumstance: the response of American firms to Japanese competition in semiconductors, 1980–1995 0 0 1 4 1 2 5 23
Strategy and the market process: introduction to the Special Issue 0 0 0 20 1 1 1 62
Strategy as economics versus economics as strategy 0 0 0 212 4 5 9 601
Systems theory and the meaning of information 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 14
The Austrian theory of the firm: Retrospect and prospect 0 0 0 6 1 3 4 20
The Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm and the Theory of the Entrepreneurial Firm* 0 1 2 142 0 4 6 383
The Fatal Conceit: The errors of socialism: F.A. Hayek, volume one of the collected works of F.A. Hayek, W.W. Bartley, III, editor (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, and Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1989) pp. xii + 180, $24.95 (cloth) 0 1 2 412 1 2 7 1,234
The Institutional Revolution: A review essay 0 0 0 15 2 4 4 84
The market as an economic process: Ludwig M. Lachmann, (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1986) pp. xii + 173, $29.95 0 0 3 170 0 2 8 520
The vanishing hand: the changing dynamics of industrial capitalism 0 0 0 1 3 8 12 1,115
special issue: Knowledge, consumption, and endogenous growth 0 0 0 222 1 1 2 721
Total Journal Articles 3 9 32 3,139 53 132 240 13,296
1 registered items for which data could not be found


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Economics as a Process 0 0 0 0 4 4 6 186
Total Books 0 0 0 0 4 4 6 186


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COMMENT ON “GROUP SELECTION AND METHODOLOGICAL INDIVIDUALISM: COMPATIBLE AND COMPLEMENTARY” BY DOUGLAS GLEN WHITMAN 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 4
Industrial economics 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 2
Innovation Processes and Industrial Districts 0 0 0 3 2 2 4 38
Insights from Joseph Schumpeter 0 0 0 10 0 2 2 39
Journeying toward Institutionalism 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 10
Journeying toward Institutionalism 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 4
Modularity in Technology and Organization 0 0 0 19 3 6 9 134
Risk and uncertainty 0 1 9 180 0 1 15 739
SCHUMPETER AND THE OBSOLESCENCE OF THE ENTREPRENEUR 0 0 0 0 2 3 5 8
The 'new' institutional economics 0 1 4 94 3 4 11 324
The boundaries of the firm 0 0 0 8 0 0 2 34
The corporation is not a nexus of contracts: it’s an iPhone 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 19
Total Chapters 0 2 13 320 12 24 56 1,355


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