Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the operationalization of transaction cost
economics. Vertical integration, an understanding of which serves as a paradigm for helping …

Interorganizational relationships (IORs) encompass a broad array of collaborative
exchanges, including strategic alliances, joint ventures, buyer—supplier agreements …

In this article, we review the literature on interfirm contracting in an effort to synthesize
existing research and direct future scholarship. While transaction cost economics (TCE) is …

The propositions that organization matters and that it is susceptible to analysis were long
greeted by skepticism by economists. One reason why this message took a long time to …

Since the publication of Williamson's Markets and Hierarchies, many empirical articles have
investigated the tenets of transaction cost theory. Using meta-analytic techniques, we …

This paper provides a comprehensive review of the empirical literature in transaction cost
economics (TCE) across multiple social science disciplines and business fields. We show …

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The study of the governance of economic organization has become a lively and diverse field
of research over the past four decades. This chapter describes the fundamental ideas of …

We hypothesize that trust is a moderator of the direct relationship between control and
coordination concerns and contractual complexity. Our results suggest that high trust …

Using a proprietary data set provided by a major manufacturer of aircraft engines, we
empirically investigate how product reliability is impacted by the use of two different types of …