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Volume 1: Part 1 Development in the theory of the firm - a criticalreview: Capabilities and governance - the rebirth of production in the theoryof economic organization. Part II Fountainheads of the modern theories of thefirm: industrial organization;enterprise and profit; the nature of the firm;cognitive limits on rationality; foreword to the third edition in "The Theoryof the Growth of the Firm"; equilibriu, expectations and information. PartIII Transaction costs, property rights and economic organisation:information, expectations and the theory of the firm; production, informationcosts and economic organization; vertical integration, appropriable rents andthe competitive contracting process; the contractual nature of the firm; theentrepreneur's reward for self-policing; the theory of the firm revisited.Part IV Agency theories, incomplete contracts and corporate governance:theory of the firm - managerial behavior, agency costs and ownershipstructure; transaction-cost economics - the governance of contractualrelations; agency problems and the theory of the firm; moral hazard in teams;separation of ownership and control; the economics of governance - frameworkand implications; the costs and benefits of ownership - a theory of verticaland lateral integration; an economist's perspective on the theory of thefirm; multitask principal-agent analyses - incentive contracts, assetownership and job design; the firm as a collection of assets; hierarchy - theeconomics of manaing; specific and general knowledge and organizationalstructure. Volume 2: Part 1 Capabilities and resource-based views: theorganisation of industry; organizational capabilities and behavior; aresource-based view of the firm; absorptive capacity - a new perspective onlearning and innovation; firm resources and sustained competitive advantage;a historical comparison of resource-based theory and five schools of thoughtwithin industrial organization economics - do we have a new theory of firm?;the resource-based view within the conversation of stragetic management;coordination and organizational learning in the firm; the cornerstones ofcompetitive advantage - a resource-based view; capabilities and the theory ofthe firm; dynamic capabilities and strategic management. (Part Contents).