Capabilities and Coherence in Firms and Markets
Capabilities and Coherence in Firms and Markets
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公司和市场的能力和一致性
DOI：
10.1007/978-1-4615-2201-0_4
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1995
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R. Langlois
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这本书试图开启经济学的进化方法和基于资源的战略方法之间的对话。尽管它们在知识起源和解释目的上存在差异，但这两个知识链条在相当长的距离内相互交织在一起。然而，这一章并没有试图进行详细的比较，而是试图通过考察一个共同感兴趣的特定问题来阐明重叠：经济组织中“一致性”的性质。正如Foss、Knudsen和Montgomery在他们的导言章节中指出的那样，一致性与“从根本上区分一个有生存能力的公司作为一个历史实体，而不仅仅是通过交易成本最小化的稀薄胶水将企业凝聚在一起的任意集合”有关(第13页)。事实上，进化经济学和战略中基于资源的思维提出了共同的问题，让组织经济学中一个古老而根本的辩论重新活跃起来：到底什么是公司？是什么让一家公司与一个市场不同？正如我所建议的
This volume seeks to open a dialogue between the evolutionary approach to economics and the resource-based approach to strategy. Despite their differences in intellectual origin and explanatory purpose, these two intellectual strands intertwine for a considerable distance. Rather than attempt a detailed comparison, however, this chapter tries to illuminate the overlap by examining one particular issue of common interest: the nature of" coherence" in economic organization. As Foss, Knudsen, and Montgomery noted in their introductory chapter, coherence has to do with whatever it is" that fundamentally distinguishes the viable firm as a historical entity, rather than just an arbitrary collection of businesses held together by the thin glue of transaction-cost minimization"(p. 13). Indeed, evolutionary economics and resource-based thinking in strategy raise common issues that reanimate an old and fundamental debate in the economics of organization: What exactly is a firm, anyway? And what is it that makes a firm different from a market? As I will suggest