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A TRIBUTE TO OLIVER WILLIAMSON:
Williamsons Impact onthe Theory and Practiceof Management
David J. Teece
Although unknown to most CEOs, at least until his recent recogni-
tion by the Nobel Economics Prize Committee, Oliver William-
son has had a large impact on management theory and practice.
There are many organization and strategy questions where his
research is highly relevant. He has spent much of his career trying to understand
how things ought to be organized to promote efficiency, minimize manageable
contractual risk, and achieve profitability. He developed transaction cost eco-
nomics as a framework to assist in this.
Williamson has also spent considerable effort in exploring not just theprivate benefits associated with various organizational structures, but the social
benefits as well. The latter line of inquiry has provided many insights into pub-
lic policy, where they have had great impact. His insights have been employed
by antitrust and regulatory agencies around the world. In some countries, his
work has animated economy-wide reform efforts. The dramatic and successful
economic reforms in New Zealand during the 1980sespecially in energy and
telecommunicationshave his fingerprints on them, as he was very influen-
tial with senior officials in the New Zealand Treasury. That history is described
elsewhere and will not be repeated here.1
Key Management Issues
Williamson has not been writing to a management audience; but thats
not to say that he hasnt influenced management thinking. Managers often
dont know it because his work, while accessible to practitioners (the amount
of mathematical theory is minimal), is unlikely to be read by them because it is
very general and may not seem to be directly applicable. Nevertheless, leading
management consultants and scholars have helped propagate his ideas, often
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watered down and translated to make them a bit more user friendly to execu-
tive audiences unfamiliar with the scholarly literature.
Here is a thumbnail sketch of just a few of the management ideas that are
part of the collective received wisdom attributable, at least in part, to Oliver E.
Williamson: the contract logic behind vertical integration, the inherent hazards
of contractual relationships, and the potential benefits of transforming organiza-
tional structures.
The vertical integration of economic activity is not always best understood
by reference to particular technological benefits associated with performing side-
by-side activities under one roof. Rather, make-or-buy decisions can better be
framed, and understood, as contracting issues. Every time an expansion of eco-
nomic activity is contemplated, Williamson admonishes the analyst/executive
to ask whether the task is best done internally or outsourced. In Williamsons
paradigm, the answer depends not just on capabilities and related production
costs (which he recognizes but doesnt analyze), but mainly on strategic risk
management factors associated with relying on contracts versus inside-the-firmarrangements.
Williamson asks us to recognize that contracts are by their very nature
incompleteone simply cannot think of everything when negotiating and writ-
ing a contract. Because of that, there is an inherent risk associated with con-
tracts, particularly when investment in (transaction-specific) physical or human
capital is involved. Unforeseen contingencies will surely arise. This matters a
great deal if the parties to the contract dont have other options available to
them and could be held over a barrel (Williamsons hold-up problem).
Stated differently, if one of the parties to a contract makes a relationship-
specific investment in reliance on the promises of the other party, then their
investmentwhether in physical capital, financial capital, or human capitalis
in a situation of strategic dependence and
therefore at risk. Moreover, this dependence
may not be there at the time the contract is
entered into; but once investment is made
in reliance on the other partys continued
commitment, strategic vulnerability emerges. Williamson called this the funda-
mental transformationand managers must be careful that they arent blind-
sided by it.
Another management idea championed by Williamson is that organiza-
tions themselves can be the subject of innovation. He showed why the multi-
divisional form of business organizationwith each division organized as an
independent profit center (once firms get above a certain size)is desirable asa structure for allocating resources internally. It allowed for better decisions (by
separating operational and strategic decisions) and reduced managerial discre-
tion. Organizational form matters, as every executive knows, even if scholars are
prone to ignore it.2
More generally, Williamson reminds us that new forms of business orga-
nization (such as the multidivisional structure introduced in the early twentieth
David Teece is the Thomas Tusher Professor at
the Haas School of Business at the University of
California, Berkeley.
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century) and new business models (such as Dells direct-to-consumer model for
personal computers) ought be thought of as organizational innovations. Their
importance is often neglected not only by many professional economists, but
also by managers. Williamson has been clear that we should think of such orga-
nizational innovations as great productivity boosters to both the U.S. and globaleconomies. Empirical research supports his predictions.3
Specific Applications
The nature of a Laureates contribution is that the insights must be quite
general to make a contribution to theory. Williamsons work is no exception.
The framework he developed has come to be known as transactions cost eco-
nomics (TCE). The natural elegance of this framework is much appreciated by
scholars; however its less appreciated by executives, some of whom do not rec-
ognize its practical value. Yet Williamsons theories are very pragmatic. Here, for
example, are two principles that follow from his work: When investing in anything, always ask whether one should make or
buy. In assessing the trade-off, one should generally favor buy over
make unless transaction (relationship) specific investments have to be
made to enable performance on a contract. Such investments will lead to
switching costs, and exposure to switching costs should tilt decisions in
favor of alternative arrangements (if they dont suffer from other prob-
lems.)
Its not just desirable but probably necessary to outsource commodity
items. Williamson gives meaning to what a commodity is (for purposes
of making outsourcing decisions). If there arent switching costs now and
in the future, then the manager is probably looking at a commodity item
that should be sourced externally if competitive conditions exist.4
Others have taken Williamsons ideas and applied them to particular
industrial contexts. For instance, my own work on Profiting from Innovation
found great utility in Williamsons contracting framework as a guide to helping
innovators decide what complementary assets they should own in order to not
just be able to commercialize an innovation, but to do so profitably.5 The con-
tracting framework Williamson developed enabled me to build a model that
both guides management and predicts how available profits will be shared.
Britains EMI, for instance, derived minimal profit from its development of the
CT-Scannerthe greatest innovation in radiology since x-raysbecause of its
failure to line up the relevant complementary assets. EMI eventually realized
that it needed a manufacturing capability, which the company tried to buildinternally, but it was too little too late. The insights provided by the Profiting
from Innovation framework come from the pairing of Williamsons contract-
ing framework with an understanding of the limits of patents, trade secrets, and
trademarks as a way to protect the profit streams which successful innovation
creates.6
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Powerful insights into such real-world issues using Williamsons frame-
work have now been provided by a veritable army of TCE scholars. Williamson
himself has employed TCE to analyze decisions with respect to the capital struc-
ture (especially debt and equity) of the business enterprise.7
At the industry level, TCE has been applied to help understand the orga-
nization of the automobile, aircraft, petroleum, and semiconductor industries,
to name a few. Gary Pisano, for example, has applied Williamsons contracting
framework to the study of the biotech industry, where the most common orga-
nizational form is an alliance between a young specialist R&D company that
gives up some degree of control to an established pharmaceutical company that
provides access to capital and to regulatory, marketing, and distribution know-
how.8 However, within these parameters there is a great deal of variability. The
start-ups managers must decide how much control theyre willing to cede and
whether to integrate into manufacturing or even distributiondecisions where
the TCE framework has proved useful. For example, many early biotech compa-
nies, when the industrys technology infrastructure was incomplete, were devel-oping generic technologies (e.g., new inputs for research) that could be widely
licensed. As drug development efforts began to produce end products, alliances
became much more relationship-specific, raising the hold-up problem.9 Manage-
ment of such contracting risks is a vital skill.
Management Theory
Williamsons work has influenced theory relevant to deciding where
management should draw the boundaries of the firm. While this is not the only
contribution Williamson has made to management theory, it is perhaps the most
widely appreciated.
General
A fundamental question in management theory is when the firm should
give way to the market and vice versa if long-run profits are to be maximized.
These organizational or firm boundary questions are absolutely central to the
field of strategic management. Vertical integration, outsourcing, diversification,
joint ventures, and divestiture are all fundamentally boundary issues; analysis
and advice on such issues is the lifeblood of many leading management consult-
ing firms.
Before Williamsons development of transaction cost economics, there
were almost no analytic frameworks in management that addressed these issues
coherently. This is where TCE first began to affect business practice. Williamsonhad a coherent theory of integration, and hence of outsourcing. Not only did the
theory have explanatory power with respect to describing the organization of
firms, but it had normative power as well.10 There is now a very large bound-
aries literature in the field of strategic management that uses transaction cost
economics or some variant of it.
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Vertical Integration
There are a plethora of studies in both industrial organization and strate-
gic management that draw on transaction cost economics to help explain inte-
gration questions in particular industrial contexts. The very first industry-specific
applications of transaction cost reasoning to vertical integration in a specific
industrial context were in the petroleum industry,11 followed by automobile
manufacturing,12 and aerospace.13 Other early applications included forward
integration into selling.14 These initial applications illustrated the power of the
framework and stimulated a considerable research program and literature.15
While these applications in the academic literature were sometimes two
steps removed from what managers and consultants find readily digestible, there
have been many successful efforts to present the framework in ways useful to
managers. For instance, a very faithful rendering of the framework (in clear,
uncluttered managerial language) can be found in Stuckey and White.16
In recent years, TCE-inspired researchers have looked at the virtual cor-
poration, exploring the limits of firms rather than the limits of markets.17 Trans-action cost economics has much to say (as do some other approaches) about
outsourcing.18
Diversification and the Multinational Firm
An equally expansive literature has emerged in the TCE tradition around
the question of diversification. While not explicitly addressed by Williamson
early on, the transaction cost economics framework can be used to explain lat-
eral diversification, particularly if explicit attention is given to knowledge assets.
The first efforts to apply the TCE framework in the context of the diversification
includes some of my own work from the early 1980s.19 These papers sparked a
series of related papers, showing not only the opportunities for, but also the lim-
its of diversification. They also made clear that the identification of economies of
scope might well be a necessary but certainly not a sufficient reason for diversifi-
cation to be profit enhancing.
The beauty of the TCE approach is that it is discriminating. Integration
and diversification are desirable in some circumstances, but not in others. Prior
to TCE, there was no discriminating framework in the field of strategic man-
agement to help examine these issues. TCE helps the manager decide when
and why. Moreover, transaction cost economics has been extended to embrace
know-how/intellectual assets and the role of complements.20
The theory of the multinational enterprise has likewise borrowed heav-
ily from TCE. The concept of internalization has also become a major synthe-
sizing and unifying concept. Applied in a pure Coasian way,21 the concept can
become tautological: firms internalize imperfect markets until the cost of further
internalization outweighs the benefits. Buckley and Casson were the first to
lay out the internalization argument in the context of multinational enterprise,
self-consciously employing TCE.22 Some of my own work has juxtaposed the
efficiency (TCE) framework against the monopoly (internalization) framework
and endeavored to provide an integrated framework in which foreign direct
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investment is just a special case of vertical integration, or horizontal expansion
to exploit difficult-to-trade knowledge assets.23
Alliances and Cooperation
Williamson has expanded his analysis beyond the markets and hierar-
chies dichotomy to include hybrid forms of organizationlong-term contracts,
franchises, alliances, and so forth.24 Hybrid firms of economic organization,
especially strategic alliances, have generated tremendous interest in recent years.
This is in part because of the ubiquity of the phenomena since at least since the
late 1970s.25 The drivers of alliance formation were seen to be (at least in the
context of innovation) transaction costs, appropriability, and access/location
issues.
There is no doubt that TCE is a useful element for the study of alliances
and hybrid forms. However, asset specificity can only go so far in explaining the
nature and structure of alliances. An important strand in the alliances literature
looks at the central role of innovation and the need for cooperation to assistfirms not only to develop, but also to commercialize innovation. Ownership of
the right complementary assets is also seen as significantly affecting the distribu-
tion of the rents from innovation. Hence, internalization is not only a mecha-
nism to protect specific assets from re-contracting hazards, it is also a way to
benefit from asset appreciation.
Beyond Pure TCE
As mentioned, asset specificity, by itself, does not carry the day, especially
when innovation is at issue. Williamson recognizes this, explicitly noting that
the introduction of innovation plainly complicates the earlier described assign-
ments of transactions to markets or hierarchies based entirely on an examina-
tion of their asset specificity qualities.26 Boeing has discovered this to their cost;
their 787 Dreamliner was more than two years delayed because an ambitious
initiative to rely heavily on outside suppliers suffered from inadequate capabili-
ties at some suppliers to develop parts for the new aircraft design combined with
inadequate oversight by Boeing.
Williamson accepts that other frameworks, such as capabilities, are
complementary to his. Firms, for instance, often knowingly enter into asym-
metric dependency relations with suppliers where building, rather than protect-
ing, knowledge assets is critical.27 In other cases, asymmetric dependence in
one contract can be balanced by an offsetting asymmetric dependence in other
contracts.28
In short, avoiding the pitfalls of asset specificity is only one part of the
story. However, it is a very important part.
In the case of semiconductors, the emergence of fabless (design-only)
semiconductor firms (and their corollary, semiconductor contract manufacturers,
known as foundries) would, on its face, seem to contradict TCE reasoning, inas-
much as for more than two decades the design and fabrication of semiconductor
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devices took place inside the same firm. The fabless chip designer is dependent
on the foundries it uses because switching costs (including nonrecurring engi-
neering and delays) are considerable if the design house wants, for any reason,
to change foundries. However, designer firms seem to live with the potential
hold-up risk associated with the switching cost because of the cost saving associ-ated with using a virtual fab. The large minimum efficient scale of advanced
chip manufacturing means that owning a fab is very expensive unless one is
able to drive sufficient business through ones own fab so as to maintain high
utilization.
The procurement hazards identified by Williamsonpredicted to be high
for the fabless design housecan be mitigated through: multiple contractual
arrangements;29 spreading the business around (to remind foundries that, in
the medium run, the customer has choices); and savings in per unit procure-
ment costs.
A case in point is Broadcom. Broadcom outsources the manufacture
of all of its chip designs, but it does so to multiple foundries. This isnt secondsourcing in the traditional sense of breaking a procurement order up, as this
would dilute Broadcoms purchasing clout. Rather, purchase orders (requests to
build) for different components are spread around amongst the primary found-
ries (TSMC, UMC, Chartered, SMIC) approximately according to their market
shares, thereby creating competitive tension and dampening any incentive that
might exist for any one supplier to do anything other than offer Broadcom reli-
able foundry services at very good prices.
Put differently, while a contracting framework places a needed focus on
potential contracting problems, it will also help lead towards solutions, and it
will highlight ameliorating factors. Indeed, the Williamsonian framework has
always seen transaction costs/contracting problems as just one set of factors
going into integration decisions; but it is a most important one.
Epilogue: A Personal Statement
The selection of Oliver Williamson to receive the 2009 Nobel Laureate in
economics was a long time in coming, and it is richly deserved. No other econo-
mist has had such a big impact on my own professional development, and there
is no other colleague from whom I have learned more and taken more inspira-
tion through all stages of my career.
I was most fortunate to be a graduate student at the University of Penn-
sylvania (hereafter Penn) in economics when Olly was on the faculty. While I
never took a class from himand he was on leave at the University of Warwickin the UK when I was seeking a thesis advisormy early academic career was
animated by my great admiration for Ollys work and my eagerness to see it
empirically verified and applied to real problems in business and public policy.
Applying and testing the TCE paradigm was my preoccupation for the decade
1975-1985. Since then I have continued to embrace it, extend it, and apply it in
my scholarship, teaching, and consulting. There is rarely a problem or an issue
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I look at which doesnt sooner or later benefit from the application of some
insight from Ollys scholarship.
I am especially proud of two small personal triumphs. First, I had
the privilege of reading Ollys transformational workMarkets and Hierarchies
(published in 1975) in 1974 when I was a graduate student at Penn and the
manuscript was in draft. Olly generously shared a copy with me and asked for
comments. I returned to his office three days later and reported: This is a great
book. Why has it taken me four years at Penn to discover a framework that
addresses deep questions about the business firm and its organization? I also
declared that the book would lead to Olly winning the Nobel Prize in econom-
ics, a prediction I kept forcefully making to anyone who would listen. Second, I
am especially proud that I was able to lead the recruiting effort at Haas to attract
Olly to UC Berkeley from Yale. We achieved that successfully in 1988, with
enthusiastic support coming from Business, Economics, and Law. I am not aware
of another faculty member at UC Berkeley who has successfully earned and
maintained a three-way appointment involving these departments. This speaksto the intellectual eclecticism of UC Berkeley. It also speaks highly to Ollys inter-
disciplinary skills. He is also one of the very few leading economists who has
taken management issues seriously and has been respectful to disciplines outside
of economics.
Ollys arrival at UC Berkeley was successfully leveraged into a 25-year
epoch of great scholarship and intellectual enthusiasm at Haas for the study of
organizations, strategy, and technology, particularly in the Business and Public
Policy program. I was pleased to co-advise many of Ollys Ph.D. students who
went on to be successful scholars in economics, strategic management, and
organizations. The two decades (1985-2005) saw a great flowering of talent
and active scholarship on multidisciplinary topics in economics and organiza-
tion. The Institute for Management, Innovation, and Organization (IMIO) at theHaas School became the linchpin of these efforts. Indeed, Olly came up with the
name! We all benefited (and continue to benefit) from his active involvement.
Thank you, Olly.
Notes
1. L. Evans, A. Grimes, and B. Wilkinson, with D. Teece, Economic Reform in New Zealand
1984-95: The Pursuit of Efficiency, Journal of Economic Literature, 34/4 (December 1996):
1856-1902.
2. O.E. Williamson, Alfred D. Chandler, Biographical Memoirs, Proceedings of the American
Philosophical Society, 153/2 (June 2009): 226-227.
3. H.O. Armour and D.J. Teece, Organizational Structure and Economic Performance: A Test
of the Multidivisional Hypothesis, The Bell Journal of Economics, 9/1 (Spring 1978): 106-122;D.J. Teece, Internal Organization and Economic Performance: An Empirical Analysis of the
Profitability of Principal Firms, Journal of Industrial Economics, 30/2 (December 1981): 173-
199.
4. Competitive conditions implies that the required production capabilities are ubiquitously
distributed across suppliers.
5. D.J. Teece, Profiting from Technological Innovation, Research Policy, 15/6 (December 1986):
285-305; D.J. Teece, Reflections on Profiting from Innovation, Research Policy, 35/8 (Octo-
ber 2006): 1131-1146.
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6. S.G. Winter, The Logic of Appropriability: From Schumpeter to Arrow to Teece, Research
Policy, 35/8 (October 2006): 1100-1106.
7. O.E. Williamson, Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance, Journal of Finance, 43/3
(July 1988): 567-591.
8. G.P. Pisano, Science Business: The Promise, the Reality, and the Future of Biotech (Boston, MA:
Harvard Business School Press, 2006).9. G.P. Pisano, The Governance of Innovation: Vertical Integration and Collaborative Arrange-
ments in the Biotechnology Industry, Research Policy, 20/3 (June 1991): 237-249,
10. See K. Monteverde and D.J. Teece, Appropriable Rents and Quasi-Vertical Integration,
Journal of Law and Economics, 25/2 (October 1982): 321-328.
11. D.J. Teece, Vertical Integration and Vertical Divestiture in the U.S. Petroleum Industry (Stanford,
CA: Stanford Institute for Energy Studies, 1976); H.O. Armour and D.J. Teece, Organiza-
tional Structure and Economic Performance: A Test of the Multidivisional Hypothesis, Bell
Journal of Economics, 9/1 (Spring 1978): 106-122.
12. K. Monteverde and D.J. Teece, Supplier Switching Costs and Vertical Integration in the
Automobile Industry, Bell Journal of Economics, 13/1 (Spring 1982): 206-213; Monteverde
and Teece (October 1982), op. cit.
13. S. Masten, The Organization of Production: Evidence from the Aerospace Industry, Journal
of Law and Economics, 27/2 (October 1984): 403-417.
14. E. Anderson and D.C. Schmittlein, Integration of the Sales Force: An Empirical Examina-
tion, RAND Journal of Economics, 15/3 (Autumn 1984): 385-395.15. H.A. Shelanski and P.G. Klein, Empirical Research in Transaction Cost Economics: A
Review and Assessment, Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, 11/2 (October 1995):
335-361.
16. J. Stuckey and D. White, When and When Not to Integrate, Sloan Management Review, 34/3
(Spring 1993): 71-83.
17. The earlier focus was more on market, not organizational, factors. However, an excellent
treatment of organizational factors can be found in Williamsons discussion of the limits of
vertical integration in O.E. Williamson, Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and Antitrust Implica-
tions (New York, NY: Free Press, 1975).
18. Illustrative efforts are H. Chesbrough and D.J. Teece, When Is Virtual Virtuous? Organizing
for Innovation Harvard Business Review, 74/1 (January/February 1996): 65-73; D.C. Mow-
ery, J.E. Oxley, and B.S. Silverman, Strategic Alliances and Interfirm Knowledge Transfer,
Strategic Management Journal, 17 (Winter 1996 Special Issue): 77-91.
19. The first efforts to show application of the transaction cost economics framework in the con-
text of the diversification were D.J. Teece Economies of Scope and the Scope of the Enter-
prise, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 1/3 (September 1980): 223-247; D.J.
Teece, Towards an Economic Theory of the Multiproduct Firm, Journal of Economic Behavior
and Organization, 3/1 (March 1982): 39-63.
20. Empirical tests in the transaction cost economics spirit that statistically explain diversifica-
tion activities include C.E. Helfat, Know-How and Asset Complementarity and Dynamic
Capability Accumulation: The Case of R&D, Strategic Management Journal, 18/5 (May 1997):
339-360.
21. See R.A. Coase, The Nature of the Firm, Economica, 4/16 (November 1937): 386-405.
22. P.J. Buckley and M. Casson, The Future of the Multinational Enterprise (London: Holms and
Meier, 1976).
23. D.J. Teece, Internal Organization and Economic Performance: An Empirical Analysis of the
Profitability of Principal Firms, Journal of Industrial Economics, 30/2 (December 1981): 173-
199; Teece (1982), op. cit.; D.J. Teece, Multinational Enterprise, Internal Governance, and
Industrial Organization,American Economic Review, 75/2 (May 1985): 233-238.
24. O.E. Williamson, Comparative Economic Organization: The Analysis of Discrete Structural
Alternatives,Administrative Science Quarterly, 36/2 (June 1991): 269-296.25. Early efforts to employ TCE to explain alliances include Teece (1986), op. cit.; G.P. Pisano,
M.V. Russo, and D.J. Teece, Joint Ventures and Collaborative Agreements in the Telecom-
munications Equipment Industry, in D. Mowery, ed., International Collaborative Ventures in
US Manufacturing (Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1988), pp. 23-70; G.P. Pisano, W. Shan, and
D.J. Teece, Joint Ventures and Collaboration in the Biotechnology Industry in D. Mowery,
ed., International Collaborative Ventures in US Manufacturing (Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1988),
pp. 183-222; G.P. Pisano and D.J. Teece, Collaborative Arrangements and Global Technol-
ogy Strategy: Some Evidence from the Telecommunications Equipment Industry, in R.A.
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Burgelman and R.S. Rosenbloom, eds., Research on Technological Innovation, Management and
Policy, Volume 4 (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1989), pp. 227-256.
26. O.E. Williamson, The Economic Institutions of Capitalism: Firms, Markets, Relational Contracting,
(New York, NY: Free Press, 1985), p. 143.
27. A. Shuen, Technology Sourcing and Learning Strategies in the Semiconductor Industry,
Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1994.28. J.M. de Figueiredo and D.J. Teece, Mitigating Procurement Hazards in the Context of Inno-
vation, Industrial and Corporate Change, 5/2 (1996): 537-559.
29. Ibid.
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