Internal Marketization Limit / 企业内部市场化边界

Internal marketization limit is 79.各位领导，但凡咱学点博弈论：契约理论如何解释职场管理’s boundary on importing market competition into firm interiors. The episode uses [[HaierGroup|Haier]]’s [[RenDanHeYi|人单合一]] as the concrete case and asks why firms would exist if market-like relations were always more efficient.

The concept’s core claim is transaction-cost logic. Firms can coordinate tasks, protect secrets, manage incomplete contracts, and avoid repeated bargaining in ways that external markets cannot always do cheaply.

Key Claims

• Market mechanisms are useful in some rigid internal systems, especially when they restore initiative and accountability.
• Over-marketization can damage cooperation when teammates become transactional counterparties rather than shared-goal collaborators.
• R&D, design, contract management, and customer relationships often depend on knowledge that is hard to price or outsource cleanly.
• The boundary depends on where hierarchy lowers transaction costs more than it suppresses useful market feedback.

Connections

• 人单合一 / RenDanHeYi and Haier Group / 海尔 - source case.
• Contract Theory / 契约理论, Incomplete Contract / 不完全契约, and Information Asymmetry In Contracts / 契约中的信息不对称 - theory frame.
• Workplace Incentive Design and Economic Way Of Thinking - management and reasoning context.