The specificity of the employment relationship: exploring the micro-foundations of the firm

We begin by examining the human traits that the leading mainstream economic theories of the firm consider relevant to understand the functioning of firms. We point out that the opportunism assumption (Williamson, 1975) differs from the “feelings of entitlement” assumption (Hart and Moore, 2008) whic...

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Main Author: Lopes, H. (author)
Format: workingPaper
Language:eng
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10071/10748
Country:Portugal
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