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The Contractual Nature of the Firm
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Metadata
- Venue
- The Journal of Law and Economics
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1983-04
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-21
- ISSN
- 0022-2186 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5285
- OpenAlex
- W1975524050
- Cited by
- 808
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 18.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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- The Contractual Nature of the Firm. (1983). The Journal of Law and Economics. https://doi.org/10.1086/467023
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Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
