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In a tug-of-war team, who can tell who is pulling hardest? Where only the overall output is measurable, there will be a tendency for input-owners to free-ride or ‘shirk’, to the detriment of all. However, although the precise productive contribution to output may be impossible to measure, observable behaviour of input-owners may provide some correlation with productive contribution. But this behaviour in itself cannot be sold as a marketable commodity. The members of the team, realizing the mutually destructive incentives of their situation, voluntarily agree to give up their freedom to a director or monitor, who is able to observe and set standards for input behaviour.
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65 suffice, but if the degree of coordination required was very complex inter-firm, but non-market, relationships would be observed, such as long-term contracts, subcontracting, technical cooperation, and joint ventures. Like Coase, Richardson argued that conventional economic theory had little to offer in the analysis of these significant areas of economic behaviour. Worse, the natural tendency of mainstream economics would be to regard many of these practices as anti-competitive and undesirable, in that they appeared to be some form of gratuitous suppression of market competition.