1 Transaction Cost Economics and Beyond: Why and How?.- 2 Efficiency, Power, Authority and Economic Organization.- 3 Empirical Research in Transaction Cost Economics: Challenges, Progress, Directions.- 4 Transaction Cost Analysis and Marketing.- 5 Regulatory Issues with Vertically Disintegrated Public Utilities: A Transaction Cost Analysis.- 6 Opportunism and Trust in Transaction Cost Economics.- 7 Short-Term Prevalence, Social Approval, and the Governance of Employment Relations.- 8 Inside the Black Box: The Variety of Hierarchical Forms.- 9 Authority Relations in the Firm: Review and Agenda for Research.- 10 The Core of the Firm: The Issue of the Employer-Employee Relationship.- 11 Transaction Cost Analysis — Is It Being Used Out of Context?.- 12 Opportunism, Learning, and Organizational Evolution.- 13 Corporate Culture and the Nature of the Firm.- 14 Seven Reasons Why “Beyond” Transaction Costs Economics to Thesmoeconomics.- 15 After the Special Nature of the Firm: Beyond the Critics of Orthodox Neoclassical Economics.- 16 Transaction Costs and Technological Learning.- 17 Towards a Learning Based Model of Transactions.- 18 Transaction Costs and Institutional Change.- 19 A Case for Theoretical Pluralism.- List of Contributors.- List of Tables and Figures.