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      THE ECONOMIC RATIONALE OF UNIVERSITIES: A RECONSIDERATION

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            cpro20
            CPRO
            Prometheus
            Critical Studies in Innovation
            Pluto Journals
            0810-9028
            1470-1030
            December 1994
            : 12
            : 2
            : 131-151
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            8629161 Prometheus, Vol. 12, No. 2, 1994: pp. 131–151
            10.1080/08109029408629161
            277fc5a3-d665-4ec1-bf0c-3bd4e2ee1105
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            Computer science,Arts,Social & Behavioral Sciences,Law,History,Economics
            accreditation,education policy,franchising,economic coordination,professional services,transaction costs

            NOTES AND REFERENCES

            1. Ronald Coase H.. 1937. . ‘The nature of the firm’. . Economica . , Vol. 4((new series)): 386––405. .

            2. For a thorough and readable overview of the variety of contracts involved in business activities, see John A. Kay, foundations of Corporate Success, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1993.

            3. Oliver Williamson E.. 1975. . Markets and Hierarchies . , New York : : Free Press. . The Economic Institutions of Capitalism

            4. Kenneth Arrow J.. 1962. . “‘Economic welfare and the allocation of resources for invention’. ”. In The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity . , Princeton , NJ : : National Bureau of Economic Research, Princeton University Press. .

            5. Geoffrey Hodgson M.. 1988. . Economics and Institutions . , p. 174 Oxford : : Polity Press. .

            6. Roger Douglas, Unfinished Business, Random House, Auckland, 1993, chapter 5.

            7. For a study of franchising from the standpoint of the New Institutional Economics, see Anthony W. Dnes, Franchising: A Case Study Approach, Avebury, Aldershot, 1992.

            8. For a detailed discussion of the economics of coordination, see George B. Richardson, Information and Investment, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1960 (second edition, 1990).

            9. The role of voice as a coordination tool is discussed in Albert O. Hirschman, Exit, Voice and Loyalty, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1970.

            10. Such a view of knowledge is epitomised by the work of Paul K. Feyerabend, Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge, London, New Left Books, London, 1975.

            11. Williamson, 1975, op. cit.

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