Transaction cost economics: An assessment of empirical research in the social sciences

JT Macher, BD Richman - Business and politics, 2008 - cambridge.org
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 …

A systematic assessment of the empirical support for transaction cost economics

RJ David, SK Han - Strategic management journal, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Transaction cost economics (TCE) is one of the leading perspectives in management and
organizational studies, yet debate continues regarding its empirical support. In this paper …

Make, buy, or ally: A transaction cost theory meta-analysis

I Geyskens, JBEM Steenkamp… - Academy of management …, 2006 - journals.aom.org
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 …

Uncertainty, opportunism, and governance: The effects of volatility and ambiguity on formal and relational contracting

SJ Carson, A Madhok, T Wu - Academy of Management journal, 2006 - journals.aom.org
Comparing the effectiveness of contractual and relational governance in constraining
opportunism under conditions of volatility and ambiguity, we hypothesize that relational …

Privatization and its reverse: Explaining the dynamics of the government contracting process

A Hefetz, M Warner - Journal of public administration research …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Empirical evidence shows local government contracting is a dynamic process that includes
movements from public delivery to markets and from market contracts back to in-house …

An empirical examination of transaction‐and firm‐level influences on the vertical boundaries of the firm

MJ Leiblein, DJ Miller - Strategic management journal, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
A large literature has successfully employed transaction cost economic theory to describe
how exchange conditions affect the optimal form of organization. However, this approach …

Do make or buy decisions matter? The influence of organizational governance on technological performance

MJ Leiblein, JJ Reuer, F Dalsace - Strategic management …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
This paper investigates how firms' decisions to outsource or internalize production affect
their technological performance. While several popular arguments and some anecdotal …

Why do firms both make and buy? An investigation of concurrent sourcing

A Parmigiani - Strategic management journal, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Transaction cost economics, neoclassical economics, and the firm capabilities literatures
propose theories of the firm that typically depict firm boundaries determined by a …

The choice of organizational governance form and performance: Predictions from transaction cost, resource-based, and real options theories

MJ Leiblein - Journal of management, 2003 - Elsevier
This paper develops an approach to organizational governance decisions that recognizes
how the choice of organizational governance form affects both the creation and …

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CS Boerner, JT Macher - Unpublished manuscript, Georgetown University, 2001 - Citeseer
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 …