Talk:Theory of the firm

message: Not only is this article replete with punctuation errors and grammatical errors, it is also impossible to understand. Its SMOG readability (http://www.harrymclaughlin.com/SMOG.htm) score is over 17, hardly a score suitable for a Wikipedia article. I can fix the punctuation and the grammar, but I can't make this article comprehensible. Could someone who knows something about this subject do some work on it?
--Hattrick 05:16, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: impossible to understand

message: In the section marked "Transaction cost theory," I just commented out a reference to a 2006 publication by John Erdman.  I don't have a problem with the reference, except that I don't know what it's referring to.  After a quick Googling, I couldn't find a work fitting that description.  If someone else can locate the paper, please evaluate its relevance and restore the citation.  Thanks.  --RunnerupNJ 11:27, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Erdman reference

message: Folks, this piece is a wreck!  As the first comment notes, it's off the charts for readability...and that's not all.  The use of technical terms (almost certainly unknown by the lay reader) probably lowers its readability by half again.  The article might be okay for an academic wonk (see comment #2)--but for plain folks trying to get a grip on the basic concepts, this is worthless.  (BTW, your current commenter has a Master's degree in administration, and spent a career as a technical writer and editor.  I give this article a solid "F"...).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.254.1.7 (talk) 20:03, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: UNMITIGATED DISASTER (aka poor writing)

message: This is important stuff, but I'm pretty sure it's mis-named. In economics the theory of the firm generally refers to exactly "established economic theory, which usually views firms as given, and treats them as black boxes without any internal structure."
Some of this material belongs as extension of that concept, when it attempts to provide different models for fairly basic firm decisions. But a lot of this stuff is in a different category. I'm not yet sure what the label is for that category. "Organizational structure"? "Nature of the firm"? CRETOG8(t/c) 03:50, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  article name change 

message: ... is something other than the neoclassical approach. This is what we call "new institutional economics", but it could do with something more on perhaps what the classical economists (to the extent that they said anything it was usually disparaging!), or the institutional economists. Is there anything more recent as well? Wikidea 23:53, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Hm, as I note above, I think what the page needs is to separate the name from the content, since the name doesn't match the content. I'm not sure--is your comment above addressed at the current content or what's usually called "theory of the firm"? CRETOG8(t/c) 05:54, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

text: The theory of the firm is not the same like transaction costs, also transaction costs plays an important role in the theory of the firm. If someone wants to know about the theory of the firm, he can read the background in this article. -- Grochim (talk) 16:57, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

text: You tried to delete many sections in the article. If you see something wrong then try to improve it, not deleting it. You can also write a further section with a different point of view, but you should verify it by sources. It would be great if you could publish more important theories here. -- Grochim (talk) 16:57, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree w Cretog8.  Some excellent parts on particular authors, but the authors are important for the issues they treat, such as the hold-up problem, not b/c Williamson has written on it. The hold-up problem has been described as the "most influential work" in recent decades on why firms exist and what determines their boundaries (Holmström, Bengt,& John Roberts (1998). "The Boundaries of the Firm Revisited," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 12(4), pp. 74 (close Bookmarks). Yet it is mentioned only in passing in the Williamson section. Another good & relatively brief general survey of the literature is Archibald, G.C. (2008). "firm, theory of the," The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Easier said than done.  Perhaps there is (or are) someone(s), both wp:bold and knowledgeable one who would not throw out the baby with the bath water & who could move in steps in a good direction in future months or years.  --Thomasmeeks (talk) 11:13, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  What the page needs 

message: Per end of previous section, the above proposal is at Talk:Hold-up problem#Proposal to merge Hold-up problem into Theory of the firm in a month where comments may be posted.  --Thomasmeeks (talk) 16:18, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal to merge into this article "Hold-up problem" in a month 

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