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1999 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

THE INSTITUTION OF CONTRACT AND THE ORGANIZATION OF THE FIRM IN A SYSTEM OF DIVISION OF LABOR

Research Project

Project/Area Number 09620005
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Fundamental law
Research InstitutionNAGOYA UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

MORIGIWA Yasutomo  NAGOYA UNIVERSITY, SCOOL OF LAW, PROFESSOR, 大学院・法学研究科, 教授 (40107488)

Project Period (FY) 1997 – 1999
KeywordsNETWORK / E-COMMERCE / DIVISION OF LABOR / TRANSACTION COST / PROPERTY / CONTRACT / FIRM / MARKET
Research Abstract

The research goal for the final year was to classify types of exchange schemes both inside and outside the firm, and to propose models of contracts functioning in each type, thereby providing a comprehensive view of a system of division of labor. The basic idea underlying the models is the view that the environmental knowledge provided by the organization of the firm functioned as a complement to an incomplete contract, thus making it less incomplete. From this view point, I had inquired into problems concerning contract and organization that involved e-commerce. What optimizes the efficiency of the flow of things, money, people and information in the information society is the form of order adequate for an institution of division of labor in such a society. A realistic form of such an order is the network symbolized by the internet, a network that espouses e-commerce. In this context, because the transaction costs are dramatically decreased, the opportunities for rational exchange increase exponentially compared to such exchange that presupposes normal face-to-face communication. Theorists of "new economy" claim that through this is that the division of roles into the consumer and producer erodes away in this environment ; the consumer is enabled to participate in the planning of new merchandise utilizing the internet so that their feedback may be accumulated at little cost, hence contributing to the idealization of the allocation of resources. This phenomenon answers not only some of the questions invoked by the efficiency thesis, but also the alienation thesis, as outlined in the research report of last year. As announced in the research schedule, I have discussed this and other findings of the research project at the World congress of IVR held in June 1999 in New York in a presentation entitled "Law and the Division of Labor".

  • Research Products

    (4 results)

All Other

All Publications (4 results)

  • [Publications] 森際康友: "企業倫理と市場経済"市場社会と経済倫理. 16-21 (1999)

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  • [Publications] 森際康友: "分業という秩序における企業倫理の意義"市場社会と経済倫理-中間報告-. 82-92 (1999)

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  • [Publications] MORIGIWA, YASUTOMO: "BUSINESS ETHICS AND MARKET ECONOMY"MARKET SOCIETY AND ECONOMIC ETHICS. 16-22 (1999)

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  • [Publications] MORIGIWA, YASUTOMO: "THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BUSINESS ETHICS IN A SYSTEM OF DIVISION OF LABOR"MARKET SOCIETY AND ECONOMIC ETHICS (A PRELIMINARY REPORT). 82-92 (1999)

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Published: 2001-10-23  

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