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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Transaction Cost Analysis"”.
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Marketing channels and transaction cost analysis: the role of transaction specific investment
Researchers have theorized that Transaction Cost Analysis paradigm draws a connection between transaction specific investment and opportunism with guile. This dissertation investigated this relationship during and after the negotiation process with a focus on contractual safeguarding. It was …
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Power, conflict, norms, and transaction costs: A synthetic transaction cost analysis of discrete and relational exchange behavior between channel members
Transaction cost analysis (TCA) is used to identify characteristics of distributor and manufacturer transaction costs within an MRO channel that are correlated with particular types of exchange behavior. Asset specificity, frequency of transactions, bounded rationality, and the number of viable …
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Supply Chain Network Evolution: Demand-based Drivers of Interfirm Governance Evolution
… This remains an unanswered question in the transaction cost analysis (TCA) and relational exchange literatures. Some researchers purport that transactional governance provides superior performance by providing firms the flexibility to change suppliers. Others suggest that relational …
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Performance Implications of Multi -Partner Channel Relationships
Based on the theoretical arguments from transaction cost analysis, agency theory, and social exchange theory, the dissertation examined a model of relationship strength as a function of dependence and relationship fairness perception, developed a classification schema for multi-partner …
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The effect of outsourcing and situational characteristics on physical distribution transportation efficiency
… of the transportation activities. Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) offered a useful theoretical framework for consideration of this make or buy decision by suggesting the independent variables of asset specificity, uncertainty, and frequency/volume. Seven two-part research hypotheses …
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Communication strategy development in supplier-based environmental uncertainty: the mediating effects of transaction form and interpersonal exchange norms
… A theoretical model was developed based on Transaction Cost Analysis (Williamson 1976, 1985, 1986) and Social Exchange Theory (Kelley and Thibaut 1978). Additionally, several forms of interpersonal communication were modeled as behavioral outcomes of these norms. This research explored both …
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Division Of Control, Relationship Dynamics And Joint Venture Performance
… a theoretical framework combining elements of transaction cost analysis and social exchange theory. A multi-method and multi-source methodology was used to investigate these questions in 2-parent, manufacturing JVs in operation in Canada. Hypotheses were tested using regression analysis, and …
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Postgång på växlande villkor : det svenska postväsendets organisation under stormaktstiden
… its agencies in the seventeenth century. The analysis relies on a theoretical model inspired by economist Oliver E. Williamson’s transaction cost theory, modified to function for a study of seventeenth-century Swedish society. The concepts “market” and “hierarchy” is central to this theory. …
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Hierarchy in industry architecture : transaction strategy under technological constraints
… of innovation and production through industrial transactions with each other. However, it is difficult for specialized firms to be aware of and manage accordingly the kind of systemic constraints and opportunities induced by relevant but indirect transactions, as well as the technological and …
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Understanding Information Technology Investment Decision-Making in the Context of Hotel Global Distribution Systems: a Multiple-Case Study
… hotel GDS; 2) call attention to an important and costly topic in hopes of improving current practices; and 3) fill a noticeable literary void so that future researchers on IT and hotel GDS would have a foundation and starting point. The perennial question of any business is "How does an …