交易费用企业理论的发展及其评述

Development and Comments on Firm Theories of Transaction Cost

科斯在 1937年提出交易费用企业理论以后 ,经济学家从不同角度对这一理论进行了发展。这些发展包括 :威廉森的最优科层理论、艾智仁与德姆塞茨的团队生产与监督理论、张五常的契约决定理论以及新兴古典经济学家的间接定价企业理论。交易费用企业理论尽管初步解释了企业的出现以及企业的边界问题 ,但是还需要对一些概念问题 ,比如与交易费用有关的概念、与企业定义有关的问题作出进一步的解释。

After Coase put forward the firm theories of transaction cost in 1937, the econoists have developed them from different perspectives. These developments include: the optimum hierarchy of Williamson, the group production and supervision of Alchian and Demesetz, and contractual nature of the firm of Cheung, and the indirect pricing firm theories of New classical Economics. Although the economists of Firm Theories of Transaction Cost explained the formmation and boundary of firm initially, some questions must be explained progressively, for example, the concepts on the transaction cost, the questions on the definition of firm.