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 1 3 12 182
Bursting Boilers and the Federal Power Redux: The Evolution of Safety on the Western Rivers 0 0 0 162 0 1 7 1,710
Business Groups and the Natural State 0 0 3 350 0 1 16 727
Business History as Institutional History 1 1 12 104 3 5 30 78
Capabilities and Coherence in Firms and Markets 0 0 0 39 0 1 6 66
Capabilities and Governance the Rebirth of Production in the Theory of Economic Organization 0 1 2 883 1 2 26 2,619
Capabilities and Vertical Disintegration in Process Technology: The Case of Semiconductor Fabrication Equipment 0 0 0 17 0 2 10 41
Capabilities and the Theory of the Firm 0 0 0 75 0 1 8 89
Chandler in a Larger Frame: Markets, Transaction Costs, and Organizational Form in History 0 0 0 1,051 0 1 15 1,911
Class Attendance, PowerPoint Slides and Learning Outcomes 0 0 0 162 0 0 6 663
Cognition and Capabilities: Opportunities Seized and Missed in the History of the Computer Industry 0 0 0 19 0 0 5 30
Cognitive Comparative Advantage and the Organization of Work: Lessons from Herbert Simon's Vision of the Future 0 0 0 609 1 1 15 1,583
Competition through Institutional Form: the Case of Cluster Tool Standards 0 0 0 443 0 0 8 1,024
Disintermediation: the Rise of the Personal Computer and the Internet in the Late Twentieth Century 0 0 4 90 2 2 26 159
Do Firms Plan? 0 0 0 13 1 1 11 36
Economic Institutions and the Boundaries of the Firm: The Case of Business Groups 0 0 1 423 2 2 13 771
Economics as a Process, Notes on the "New Institutional Economics" 0 0 0 186 0 1 5 566
Edith Penrose: Seeing into the “Insides” of the Firm 0 0 4 71 1 1 21 75
Entrepreneurship and Knowledge 0 0 0 64 0 0 4 229
Fission, Forking, and Fine Tuning 0 0 0 62 0 2 9 166
Frank Knight and the Problem of the Twentieth Century 1 1 11 169 4 5 43 173
Hunting the Big Five: Twenty-first Century Antitrust in Historical Perspective 0 0 0 214 2 2 10 200
Identity, Religion, and the State: the Origin of Theocracy 0 0 3 72 1 3 35 235
Imprisoning Complexity in Modules 0 0 1 27 2 2 19 63
Innovation Processes and Industrial Districts 0 0 1 522 0 4 27 1,336
Innovation, Networks, and Vertical Integration 0 0 0 48 2 2 15 81
Institutions for Getting Out of the Way: A Comment on McCloskey 0 0 1 135 1 1 9 136
Institutions, Inertia, and Changing Industrial Leadership 1 1 1 19 3 4 16 46
Internal Organization In a Dynamic Context: Some Theoretical Considerations 0 0 0 56 0 0 8 410
Knowledge, Consumption, and Endogenous Growth 0 0 0 599 0 0 7 1,485
Memes and Myths of Antitrust 0 0 1 17 8 8 21 32
Modularity in Technology, Organization, and Society 0 0 0 634 2 2 11 1,463
Modularity, Identity, and the Constitutional Diagonal 0 0 1 6 2 2 12 21
Of Hackers and Hairdressers: Modularity and the Organizational Economics of Open-source Collaboration 0 0 0 111 0 0 13 365
Organizing the Electronic Century 0 0 0 390 9 9 14 986
R&D and the American Corporation before World War II 0 0 2 114 0 1 13 190
Schumpeter and the Obsolescence of the Entrepreneur 0 0 0 995 1 3 20 2,487
Schumpeter’s knowledge problem – in the economy and in the voting booth 1 1 65 65 3 6 50 50
Strategy and Circumstance: the Response of American Firms to Japanese Competition in Semiconductors, 1980-1995 0 1 1 327 2 3 15 883
Subjective Probability and Subjective Economics 0 0 0 95 1 1 6 455
Systems Theory, Knowledge and the Social Sciences and on the Reception of Noise: A Rejoiner 0 0 0 61 0 0 10 496
Teaching Economical Writing in the Age of AI: A Process-Based Framework 2 2 28 108 8 12 128 288
Technological Standards, Innovation, and Essential Facilities: Toward a Schumpeterian Post-Chicago Approach 1 1 2 534 1 1 5 1,340
The Coevolution of Technology and Organization in the Transition to the Factory System 0 0 1 368 0 0 10 1,639
The Corporation Is Not a Nexus of Contracts. It’s an iPhone 0 0 1 113 17 17 24 256
The Corporation as an Evolved Organizational Design 23 51 51 51 52 76 76 76
The Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm and the Theory of the Entrepreneurial Firm 0 0 2 1,898 0 0 21 8,145
The Federal Government Role in the Development of the American Software Industry: An Assessment 2 2 4 18 13 13 194 218
The Fisher Body Case and Organizational Economics 0 0 4 181 1 10 58 633
The Institutional Approach to Economic History: Connecting the Two Strands 0 0 3 330 0 1 14 277
The Institutional Revolution: A Review Essay 0 0 3 336 0 0 22 326
The Secret Life of Mundane Transaction Costs 0 1 1 567 0 2 9 1,487
The Vanishing Hand: the Changing Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism 0 0 0 1,262 2 6 28 2,492
The Vanishing Hand: the Changing Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism 0 0 0 934 0 0 19 3,363
Why Are There Firms 0 0 0 121 1 1 8 385
“An Elephants’ Graveyard”: the Deregulation of American Industry in the Late Twentieth Century 0 0 3 111 1 2 17 123
Total Working Papers 32 63 217 16,687 151 226 1,260 45,366
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 1 6 144
Business groups and the natural state 0 0 0 27 0 2 21 216
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 0 176 0 2 8 637
Capabilities and Governance: The Rebirth of Production in the Theory of Economic Organization 0 0 0 10 0 1 8 54
Chandler in a Larger Frame: Markets, Transaction Costs, and Organizational Form in History 0 0 0 6 0 0 6 31
Cognition, Redundancy, And Learning In Organizations 0 0 0 10 0 1 7 57
Cognitive comparative advantage and the organization of work: Lessons from Herbert Simon's vision of the future 0 0 0 117 0 0 9 321
Comment on 'Technological Revolutions and the Evolution of Industrial Structures' (by Giovanni Dosi, Alfonso Gambardella, Marco Grazzi, and Luigi Orsenigo) 0 0 0 30 0 0 12 152
Cost-Benefit Analysis, Environmentalism, and Rights 0 0 0 7 0 1 9 74
Do firms plan? 0 0 1 19 0 0 15 82
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 0 3 100
Explaining Vertical Integration: Lessons from the American Automobile Industry 0 0 0 99 0 2 13 280
External Economies and Economic Progress: The Case of the Microcomputer Industry 1 1 2 5 1 3 13 43
Fission, forking and fine tuning 0 0 0 3 0 0 10 38
Frank Knight on Risk, Uncertainty, and the Firm: A New Interpretation 0 0 0 0 2 5 23 2,012
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 0 0 2 37 0 0 10 97
Identity, religion, and the state: The origin of theocracy 0 0 1 4 0 0 14 62
Innovation, networks, and vertical integration 0 0 0 226 0 1 13 582
Institutions for getting out of the way 0 0 0 22 0 1 8 52
Introduction to the Oliver E. Williamson memorial issue 0 0 0 5 0 2 16 25
John Kay: The corporation in the 21st century: why (almost) everything we are told about business is wrong 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kirznerian Entrepreneurship and The Nature of The Firm 0 0 0 31 0 1 11 146
Knowledge and Rationality in the Austrian School: An Analytical Survey 0 0 0 77 0 1 8 204
La Sémantique économique en question, Christian Schmidt, Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1985, 231 pages 0 0 0 2 0 0 5 41
Modularity in technology and organization 0 0 3 301 0 3 21 765
Modularity, identity, and the constitutional diagonal 0 0 0 0 0 1 12 15
Networks and innovation in a modular system: Lessons from the microcomputer and stereo component industries 0 0 0 432 1 5 17 1,145
Of Hackers and Hairdressers: Modularity and the Organizational Economics of Open-source Collaboration 0 0 0 99 0 1 10 323
Organizations and Language Games 0 0 0 5 0 0 11 43
Personal Capitalism as Charismatic Authority: The Organizational Economics of a Weberian Concept 0 0 0 1 0 0 11 636
Reviews 0 0 0 4 0 0 5 51
Small, Medium, Large: How the Government Made the U.S. into a Manufacturing Powerhouse. By Coleen A. Dunlavy. Cambridge, UK and Hoboken, NJ: Polity Press, 2024. Pp. xii, 226. $29.95 cloth; $24.00 ebook 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1
Spinning off and spinning on(?): the federal government role in the development of the US computer software industry 0 0 2 153 0 1 20 340
Strategy and circumstance: the response of American firms to Japanese competition in semiconductors, 1980–1995 0 0 0 4 2 4 12 33
Strategy and the market process: introduction to the Special Issue 0 0 0 20 0 0 5 66
Strategy as economics versus economics as strategy 0 0 0 212 0 0 12 608
Systems theory and the meaning of information 0 0 0 3 1 1 4 18
The Austrian theory of the firm: Retrospect and prospect 0 0 0 6 2 2 14 31
The Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm and the Theory of the Entrepreneurial Firm* 0 0 1 142 1 4 17 396
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 0 1 412 2 5 19 1,250
The Institutional Revolution: A review essay 0 0 1 16 2 2 13 93
The market as an economic process: Ludwig M. Lachmann, (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1986) pp. xii + 173, $29.95 0 0 3 173 0 0 18 536
The vanishing hand: the changing dynamics of industrial capitalism 0 0 0 1 0 2 17 1,123
Withdrawn as duplicate: Modularity, identity, and the constitutional diagonal 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 7
special issue: Knowledge, consumption, and endogenous growth 0 0 0 222 0 0 3 723
Total Journal Articles 1 2 18 3,148 14 57 497 13,653
1 registered items for which data could not be found


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Economics as a Process 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 194
Total Books 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 194


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COMMENT ON “GROUP SELECTION AND METHODOLOGICAL INDIVIDUALISM: COMPATIBLE AND COMPLEMENTARY” BY DOUGLAS GLEN WHITMAN 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 6
Industrial economics 0 0 0 0 1 1 6 7
Innovation Processes and Industrial Districts 0 0 0 3 0 0 9 45
Insights from Joseph Schumpeter 0 0 0 10 1 1 7 44
Journeying toward Institutionalism 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 10
Journeying toward Institutionalism 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 5
Modularity in Technology and Organization 0 0 2 21 0 3 23 151
Risk and uncertainty 2 4 18 195 9 11 32 767
SCHUMPETER AND THE OBSOLESCENCE OF THE ENTREPRENEUR 0 0 1 1 1 3 14 19
Schumpeter’s Knowledge Problem—In the Economy and in the Voting Booth 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
The 'new' institutional economics 0 0 1 94 0 1 16 334
The boundaries of the firm 0 0 0 8 1 1 5 39
The corporation is not a nexus of contracts: it’s an iPhone 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 19
Total Chapters 2 4 23 339 13 21 120 1,446


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