Papers

Why Organizations Are Such a Mess (and What an Economist Might do About It)
Robert S. Gibbons
March 2000, Chapter 1 of Organizational Economics (a text in progress).

Relational Contracts and the Theory of the Firm
Robert S. Gibbons, G. Baker and K.J. Murphy
Quarterly Journal of Economics

Bringing the Market Inside the Firm?
Robert S. Gibbons, G. Baker and K.J. Murphy
American Economic Review

Firms (and Other Relationships)
Robert S. Gibbons
P. DiMaggio (ed.), The Twenty-First Century Firm: Changing Economic Organization in International Perspective, Princeton University Press

Trust in Social Structures: Hobbes and Coase Meet Repeated Games
Robert S. Gibbons
K. Cook (ed.), Trust in Society, New York: Russell Sage Foundation

Incentives Between Firms (and Within)
Robert S. Gibbons
Management Science