Home – Home – Jornals – Scientific journal “Vestnik NSUEM” 2015 number 4

Currently, thanks to works of the Nobel laureate O. Williamson, along with such forms of performance management as market and hierarchy (i.e. firm), there are also hybrids - a specific form of organization of transactions, constituting a compromise between market and hierarchy. However, despite an important role of hybrids in economic life, currently there are no practical techniques based on measurable characteristics, which would make it possible to assign economic structures to hybrids. The existing approaches to allocation of hybrids are either of theoretical nature, poorly suitable for use in practice, or based on subjective evaluations of external characteristics of economic entities. It is obvious that it is inconvenient nor methodologically, nor practically. The suggested paper attempts to offer a technique of a quantitative assessment of those substantial characteristics of hybrids, which are used by O. Williamson for their description, and to construct the algorithm of assignment of the economic structures to hybrids. The solution of the issue of extracting hybrids from the total number of economic entities will make it possible to set out informal structures in economy as well, along with the formal integrated structures, and to estimate the real extent of integration of the enterprises.