ECON 106IOrganization of Firms
Economics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Enrollment priority to Business Economics majors. Role of firms in traditional economic theory and modern developments in theory of firms. Topics include relationship between employer and employee, principal-agent models and moral hazard, formal versus relational contracts, successful firms as coherent systems of mutually supporting parts, property rights and asset ownership, boundaries of firms, employment versus independent contracting, internal organization of firms, role and levels of firm hierarchy.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisites: courses 11, 101. Enforced corequisite: course 106IL.
BruinTree reads · Corequisite
confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
ECON 106I
- ECON 11Microeconomic Theory
- ECON 101Microeconomic Theory
- ECON 106ILOrganization of Firms Laboratory
3 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 12 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
ECON 106I
- ECON 106ILOrganization of Firms Laboratory
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.