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Keywords
Entrepreneurship; heterogeneous assets; judgment; ownership; firm boundaries; internal organization;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- B53 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Austrian
- D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
- L2 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2004-11-07 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-ENT-2004-11-07 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-HPE-2004-11-07 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
- NEP-MIC-2004-11-07 (Microeconomics)
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