This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
References
Alchian, A.A. and H. Demsetz. (1972). “Production, Information Costs, and Economic Organzation,” American Economic Review 62, 777-795.
Alchian, A.A. and S. Woodward. (1987). “Reflections on the Theory of the Firm,” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 62, 110-136.
Anderson, J.R. (1990). Cognitive Psychology and Its Implications (3rd edition). New York: Freeman.
Bandura, A. (1986). Social Foundations of Thought and Action-A Social Cognitive Theory. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.
Casson, M. (1982). The Entrepreneur-An Economic Theory. Totowa: Barnes and Noble.
Coase, R.H. (1937). “The Nature of the Firm,” Economica 4, 386-405.
Dulbecco, P. and P. Garrouste. (1998). “Towards an Austrian Theory of the Firm,” unpublished mimeo.
Foss, N.J. (1994). “The Theory of the Firm: The Austrians as Precursors and Critics of Contemporary Theory,” Review of Austrain Economics 7, 31-64.
Foss, N.J. (1997). “Austrian Insights and the Theory of the Firm,” Advances in Austrian Economics.
Hofstede, G. (ed.). (1986). “Organizational Culture” (special issue), Journal of Management Studies 23(3).
Kirzner, I.M. (1973). Competition and Entrepreneurship. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Kirzner, I.M. (1989). Discovery, Capitalsim, and Distributive Justice. New York: Basil Blackwell.
Kreps, D.M. (1990). “Corporate Culture and Economic Theory.” In J.E. Alt and K.E. Shepsle (eds.), Perspectives on Positive Political Economy. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 90-143.
Loasby, B. (1990). “Firms, Markets, and the Principle of Continuity.” In J.K. Whitaker (ed.), Centenary Essays on Alfred Marshall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 108-126.
Loasby, B. (1991). “The Firm.” In J. Creedy (ed.), Foundations of Economic Thought. London: Routledge, pp. 212-233.
Marshall, A. (1961). Principles of Economics (9th edition). London: Macmillan.
Mises. L. von. (1949). Human Action-A Treatise on Economics. London: W. Hodge.
O’ Driscoll, G.P. and M. Rizzo. (1985). The Economics of Time and Ignorance. New York: Basil Blackwell.
Schumpeter, J.A. (1912/1934). The Theory of Economic Development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (first German edition 1912).
Shackle, G.L.S. (1972). Epistemics and Economics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Streissler, E. (1982). “Schumpeter's Vienna and the Role of Credit in Innovation.” In H. Fritsch (ed.), Schumpeterian Economics. New York: Praeger, pp. 60-83.
Williamson, O.E. (1979). “Transaction-Cost Economics: The Governance of Contractual Relations,” Journal of Law and Economics 22, 233-261.
Williamson, O.E. (1985). The Economic Institutions of Capitalism. New York: Free Press.
Witt, U. (1987). “How Transaction Rights are Shaped to Channel Innovativeness,” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 143, 180-195.
Witt, U. (1989). “Subjectivism in Economics-A Suggested Reorientation.” In K.G. Grunert and F. Ölander (eds.), Understanding Economic Behavior. Boston-Dodrecht: Kluwer, pp. 409-431.
Ziegler, C.A. (1985). “Innovation and the Imitative Entrepreneur,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 6, 103-121.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Witt, U. Do Entrepreneurs Need Firms? A Contribution to a Missing Chapter in Austrian Economics. The Review of Austrian Economics 11, 99–109 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007780124524
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007780124524