威廉姆森纵向一体化理论及其对我国企业改革的启示

Williamson's Theory of Vertical Unification and ItsSignificance to the Reform of China's Enterprises

威廉姆森是美国新制度经济学派的主要代表人物之一。他采取信息分析和经济组织交易成本的比较制度研究方法,并运用于产业组织理论与政策方面的分析中,揭示了企业作为一种治理结构相对于市场失效的各个方面的优势,阐述了产业组织发展的一般性规律及结构决定的原因。威廉姆森的分析对美国产业组织的公共政策产生了积极的影响,对我国产业和企业组织发展具有借鉴意义。

Prof.Wiliamson is one of the major representatives of neo-institutionalists in America.By using information analysis and comparing the transaction costs of different economic organizations that come as a result of their institutional differences,he reveals the advantages of enterprises as a kind of managing structure in a market that has lost efficacy,and explains the general laws that govern the development of industrial organizations as well as the structural reasons behind it.His theory has exerted a positive influence over the public policies of American industrial organizations,and is of great significance to the development of Chinese industrial of business organizations.