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 1 3 171
Bursting Boilers and the Federal Power Redux: The Evolution of Safety on the Western Rivers 0 0 0 162 1 2 4 1,705
Business Groups and the Natural State 0 1 2 348 0 2 5 713
Business History as Institutional History 2 4 96 96 2 8 56 56
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 1 1 2 882 4 6 11 2,599
Capabilities and Vertical Disintegration in Process Technology: The Case of Semiconductor Fabrication Equipment 0 0 0 17 0 2 3 33
Capabilities and the Theory of the Firm 0 0 0 75 0 2 2 83
Chandler in a Larger Frame: Markets, Transaction Costs, and Organizational Form in History 0 0 0 1,051 1 2 3 1,898
Class Attendance, PowerPoint Slides and Learning Outcomes 0 0 0 162 0 1 7 658
Cognition and Capabilities: Opportunities Seized and Missed in the History of the Computer Industry 0 0 0 19 0 1 1 26
Cognitive Comparative Advantage and the Organization of Work: Lessons from Herbert Simon's Vision of the Future 0 0 0 609 0 2 4 1,570
Competition through Institutional Form: the Case of Cluster Tool Standards 0 0 0 443 0 0 1 1,016
Disintermediation: the Rise of the Personal Computer and the Internet in the Late Twentieth Century 1 2 3 88 2 9 19 142
Do Firms Plan? 0 0 0 13 1 2 4 27
Economic Institutions and the Boundaries of the Firm: The Case of Business Groups 0 0 1 422 1 3 8 761
Economics as a Process, Notes on the "New Institutional Economics" 0 0 0 186 0 0 1 561
Edith Penrose: Seeing into the “Insides” of the Firm 1 1 68 68 2 4 58 58
Entrepreneurship and Knowledge 0 0 0 64 0 0 0 225
Fission, Forking, and Fine Tuning 0 0 0 62 1 2 5 159
Frank Knight and the Problem of the Twentieth Century 0 0 3 158 1 2 12 132
Hunting the Big Five: Twenty-first Century Antitrust in Historical Perspective 0 0 0 214 3 4 7 194
Identity, Religion, and the State: the Origin of Theocracy 0 1 2 70 2 4 22 204
Imprisoning Complexity in Modules 0 1 3 27 0 7 13 51
Innovation Processes and Industrial Districts 0 0 2 521 1 5 9 1,314
Innovation, Networks, and Vertical Integration 0 0 0 48 1 2 3 68
Institutions for Getting Out of the Way: A Comment on McCloskey 0 0 0 134 1 3 3 130
Institutions, Inertia, and Changing Industrial Leadership 0 0 0 18 1 1 1 31
Internal Organization In a Dynamic Context: Some Theoretical Considerations 0 0 0 56 1 2 3 404
Knowledge, Consumption, and Endogenous Growth 0 0 0 599 0 0 1 1,478
Memes and Myths of Antitrust 0 0 1 16 0 2 9 13
Modularity in Technology, Organization, and Society 0 0 0 634 1 3 4 1,455
Modularity, Identity, and the Constitutional Diagonal 0 0 1 5 1 5 8 14
Of Hackers and Hairdressers: Modularity and the Organizational Economics of Open-source Collaboration 0 0 0 111 1 1 1 353
Organizing the Electronic Century 0 0 0 390 1 3 5 975
R&D and the American Corporation before World War II 0 1 2 113 0 1 2 178
Schumpeter and the Obsolescence of the Entrepreneur 0 0 0 995 0 0 2 2,467
Strategy and Circumstance: the Response of American Firms to Japanese Competition in Semiconductors, 1980-1995 0 0 2 326 2 2 8 870
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 2 3 4 489
Teaching Economical Writing in the Age of AI: A Process-Based Framework 3 16 96 96 10 48 208 208
Technological Standards, Innovation, and Essential Facilities: Toward a Schumpeterian Post-Chicago Approach 0 1 1 533 1 2 3 1,337
The Coevolution of Technology and Organization in the Transition to the Factory System 0 0 0 367 1 1 5 1,630
The Corporation Is Not a Nexus of Contracts. It’s an iPhone 0 0 0 112 0 1 2 233
The Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm and the Theory of the Entrepreneurial Firm 0 1 1 1,897 1 5 6 8,129
The Federal Government Role in the Development of the American Software Industry: An Assessment 1 1 2 15 1 2 5 26
The Fisher Body Case and Organizational Economics 0 2 10 179 3 19 47 594
The Institutional Approach to Economic History: Connecting the Two Strands 1 2 2 329 1 2 3 265
The Institutional Revolution: A Review Essay 0 1 2 334 1 2 3 306
The Secret Life of Mundane Transaction Costs 0 0 0 566 0 0 1 1,478
The Vanishing Hand: the Changing Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism 0 0 0 1,262 4 5 6 2,469
The Vanishing Hand: the Changing Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism 0 0 0 934 0 1 4 3,345
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 1 1 109 1 6 8 112
Total Working Papers 10 37 304 16,507 59 194 618 44,300
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 1 4 8 199
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 1 1 6 630
Capabilities and Governance: The Rebirth of Production in the Theory of Economic Organization 0 0 3 10 0 1 8 47
Chandler in a Larger Frame: Markets, Transaction Costs, and Organizational Form in History 0 0 0 6 2 5 7 30
Cognition, Redundancy, And Learning In Organizations 0 0 0 10 1 3 5 53
Cognitive comparative advantage and the organization of work: Lessons from Herbert Simon's vision of the future 0 0 0 117 0 1 1 313
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 1 1 141
Cost-Benefit Analysis, Environmentalism, and Rights 0 0 0 7 0 1 4 66
Do firms plan? 1 1 1 19 1 2 3 69
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 1 3 5 270
External Economies and Economic Progress: The Case of the Microcomputer Industry 0 1 2 4 2 4 7 34
Fission, forking and fine tuning 0 0 1 3 2 3 4 31
Frank Knight on Risk, Uncertainty, and the Firm: A New Interpretation 0 0 0 0 1 4 10 1,993
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 1 2 36 2 2 4 89
Identity, religion, and the state: The origin of theocracy 0 0 0 3 1 2 8 50
Innovation, networks, and vertical integration 0 0 1 226 3 4 10 573
Institutions for getting out of the way 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 44
Introduction to the Oliver E. Williamson memorial issue 0 0 3 5 0 2 7 11
Kirznerian Entrepreneurship and The Nature of The Firm 0 0 0 31 1 2 3 137
Knowledge and Rationality in the Austrian School: An Analytical Survey 0 0 0 77 1 2 4 198
La Sémantique économique en question, Christian Schmidt, Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1985, 231 pages 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 36
Modularity in technology and organization 0 0 1 298 4 5 9 749
Modularity, identity, and the constitutional diagonal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Networks and innovation in a modular system: Lessons from the microcomputer and stereo component industries 0 0 3 432 5 7 13 1,135
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 0 1 2 33
Personal Capitalism as Charismatic Authority: The Organizational Economics of a Weberian Concept 0 0 0 1 1 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 1 1 5 152 1 1 10 321
Strategy and circumstance: the response of American firms to Japanese competition in semiconductors, 1980–1995 0 0 1 4 0 1 4 22
Strategy and the market process: introduction to the Special Issue 0 0 0 20 0 0 0 61
Strategy as economics versus economics as strategy 0 0 0 212 1 1 6 597
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 2 2 3 19
The Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm and the Theory of the Entrepreneurial Firm* 0 1 2 142 2 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 0 2 7 1,233
The Institutional Revolution: A review essay 0 0 0 15 0 2 2 82
The market as an economic process: Ludwig M. Lachmann, (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1986) pp. xii + 173, $29.95 0 0 3 170 0 2 9 520
The vanishing hand: the changing dynamics of industrial capitalism 0 0 0 1 4 6 9 1,112
special issue: Knowledge, consumption, and endogenous growth 0 0 0 222 0 0 1 720
Total Journal Articles 3 6 33 3,136 40 87 200 13,243
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 0 1 2 182
Total Books 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 182


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COMMENT ON “GROUP SELECTION AND METHODOLOGICAL INDIVIDUALISM: COMPATIBLE AND COMPLEMENTARY” BY DOUGLAS GLEN WHITMAN 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 4
Industrial economics 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Innovation Processes and Industrial Districts 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 36
Insights from Joseph Schumpeter 0 0 0 10 1 2 2 39
Journeying toward Institutionalism 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 10
Journeying toward Institutionalism 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 4
Modularity in Technology and Organization 0 0 0 19 2 3 9 131
Risk and uncertainty 0 3 9 180 0 4 15 739
SCHUMPETER AND THE OBSOLESCENCE OF THE ENTREPRENEUR 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 6
The 'new' institutional economics 1 1 5 94 1 3 9 321
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 0 1 1 18
Total Chapters 1 4 14 320 7 17 48 1,343


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