Richard N. Langlois

University of Connecticut

Professor

304 Oak Hall

Unit 1063

Storrs, CT 06269-1063

United States

http://langlois.uconn.edu/

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Scholarly Papers (23)

The Vanishing Hand: The Changing Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism

UConn Center for Institutions, Organizations, & Markets Working Paper No. 01-1
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 03 Oct 2001
Richard N. Langlois
University of Connecticut
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New Economy, Mangerial Revolution, vertical integration, Internet, transaction costs, flexible specialization, subcontracting, division of labor, outsourcing

The Vanishing Hand: The Changing Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism

Posted: 11 Jun 2003
Richard N. Langlois
University of Connecticut

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Technological Standards, Innovation, and Essential Facilities: Toward a Schumpeterian Post-Chicago Approach

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 14 Feb 2000
Richard N. Langlois
University of Connecticut
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Schumpeter and the Obsolescence of the Entrepreneur

UConn Department of Economics Working Paper No. 2002-19
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 07 Jan 2003
Richard N. Langlois
University of Connecticut
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Schumpeter, entrepreneur, capitalism, innovation

Schumpeter and the Obsolescence of the Entrepreneur

Advances in Austrian Economics, Vol. 6, 2003, Copyright
Posted: 30 Jan 2003
Richard N. Langlois
University of Connecticut

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Schumpeter, entrepreneur, capitalism, innovation

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Modularity in Technology, Organization, and Society

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 14 Feb 2000
Richard N. Langlois
University of Connecticut
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Capabilities and Governance: The Rebirth of Production in the Theory of Economic Organization

Druid Working Paper No. 97-2
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 19 Apr 1998
Richard N. Langlois and Nicolai J. Foss
University of Connecticut and Copenhagen Business School - Department of Strategy and Innovation
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The Coevolution of Technology and Organization in the Transition to the Factory System

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 12 May 1998
Richard N. Langlois
University of Connecticut
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The Coevolution of Technology and Organization in the Transition to the Factory System

Authority and Control in Modern Industry
Posted: 15 May 1998
Richard N. Langlois
University of Connecticut

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The Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm and the Theory of the Entrepreneurial Firm

University of Connecticut Economics Working Paper No. 2005-27
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 26 Oct 2005
Richard N. Langlois
University of Connecticut
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entrepreneurship, transaction costs, coordination, Coase, Knight, Schumpeter, Weber

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Strategy and Circumstance: The Response of American Firms to Japanese Competition in Semiconductors, 1980-1995

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 14 Feb 2000
Richard N. Langlois and W. Edward Steinmueller
University of Connecticut and University of Sussex - Science and Technology Policy Research Unit (SPRU)
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Cognitive Comparative Advantage and the Organization of Work: Lessons from Herbert Simon's Vision of the Future

UConn Department of Economics Working Paper No. 2002-20
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 07 Jan 2003
Richard N. Langlois
University of Connecticut
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New Economy, cognition, division of labor, arificial intelligence, work organization, skill

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New Economy, cognition, division of labor, artificial intelligence, work organization, skill

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Chandler in a Larger Frame: Markets, Transaction Costs, and Organizational Form in History

UConn Economics Working Paper No. 2003-16
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 23 Jan 2004
Richard N. Langlois
University of Connecticut
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Chandler, vertical integration, corporation, transaction costs, new economy, business history

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Knowledge, Consumption, and Endogenous Growth

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 17 Mar 2000
Richard N. Langlois
University of Connecticut
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Knowledge, Consumption, and Endogenous Growth

Posted: 11 Jun 2001
Richard N. Langlois
University of Connecticut

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Tacit knowledge, Increasing returns, Growth theory, Knowledge reuse, Codification

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Standards, Modularity, and Innovation: The Case of Medical Practice

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 12 May 1998
Richard N. Langlois and Deborah A. Savage
University of Connecticut and Yale University
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Hunting the Big Five: Twenty-First Century Antitrust in Historical Perspective

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 23 Feb 2018
Richard N. Langlois
University of Connecticut
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antitrust, platforms, telecommunications, broadcasting, net neutrality

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The Corporation is Not a Nexus of Contracts. It's an iPhone

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 24 Oct 2016
Richard N. Langlois
University of Connecticut
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Legal Fiction, Corporation, Property Rights

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Competition Through Institutional Form: The Case of Cluster Tool Standards

University of Connecticut Economics Working Paper No. 2004-10
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 23 Sep 2004
Richard N. Langlois
University of Connecticut
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Standards, semiconductors, semiconductor equipment, capabilities

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The Secret Life of Mundane Transaction Costs

University of Connecticut Economics Working Paper No. 2005-49
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 29 Mar 2006
Richard N. Langlois
University of Connecticut
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transaction costs, division of labor, modularity, standards, property rights

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Organizing the Electronic Century

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 13 Nov 2007
Richard N. Langlois
University of Connecticut
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electronics, modularity, product architecture, vertical integration

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Antitrust: Where Did It Come from and What Did It Mean?

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 27 Oct 2016
Richard N. Langlois
University of Connecticut
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Antitrust, corporation, Alfred Chandler, Sherman Antitrust Act, Interstate Commerce Act

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Frank Knight and the Problem of the Twentieth Century

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 31 Jul 2024
Richard N. Langlois
University of Connecticut
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uncertainty, entrepreneurship, liberalism, democracy, central planning, Frank Knight

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R&D and the American Corporation before World War II

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 20 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2020
Richard N. Langlois
University of Connecticut
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Research and development, innovation, technological change, economic regulation, Great Depression, New Deal

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Comment on 'Technological Revolutions and the Evolution of Industrial Structures' (by Giovanni Dosi, Alfonso Gambardella, Marco Grazzi, and Luigi Orsenigo)

Capitalism and Society, Vol. 3, Issue 2, Article 7, 2008
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 30 Jan 2013
Richard N. Langlois
University of Connecticut
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vertical integration, Chandlerian corporation, New Economy

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Memes and Myths of Antitrust

Mercatus Working Paper Series
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 18 Jul 2024
Richard N. Langlois
University of Connecticut
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industrial policy, tying arrangements, vertical integration, modular systems, creative destruction, antitrust

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Imprisoning Complexity in Modules

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 31 Jul 2024
Richard N. Langlois
University of Connecticut
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JEL classifications: D02, D23, D71, D74, K11, P14, P16