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

By Inge Geyskens, Jan-Benedict E M Steenkamp, Nirmalya Kumar. 2006

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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 quantitatively syn...

Subfields: Management Information Systems, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Firm-Specific Assets, Multinationality, and Financial Performance: A Meta-analytic Review and Theoretical Integration (2011, neutral): “Therefore, we used the following fit indexes and cutoff values to evaluate the goodness of fit of models: RMSR Ͻ .06 and AGFI Ͼ .90 (cf. Geyskens et al., 2006).”
Make, Buy or Ally? Theoretical Perspectives on Knowledge Process Outsourcing Through Alliances (2010, positive): “Historically, though, make-or-buy decisions have been modelled by drawing on TCE theory (Geyskens et al., 2006; Williamson, 1975).”
Offshoring innovation to emerging markets: Organizational control and informal institutional distance (2014, background): “Innovation and new product development under conditions of heightened technological and demand uncertainties require more iterative effort (Eisenhardt & Tabrizi, 1995) and foreign-investing firms risk becoming locked into irrelevant or outmoded innovations (Geyskens et al., 2006).”
Customers’ Risk Factor Disclosures and Suppliers’ Investment Efficiency (2019, background): “…total profit of the supply chain have been investigated in the literature, including customer information sharing (e.g., Özer and Wei 2006; Taylor and Xiao 2010), vertical integration (e.g., Geyskens et al. 2006), and relational contracts (e.g., Plambeck and Taylor 2006; Taylor and Plambeck 2007).”
Clearing a Path Through the Forest: A Meta-Review of Interorganizational Relationships (2011, background): “On the specific topic of IORs, the lack of common measures across studies creates major challenges for the use of meta-analysis techniques, but existing reviews do suggest some empirical support (Geyskens et al., 2006).”
Product-service innovation and performance: the role of collaborative partnerships and R&D intensity (2019, neutral): “Geyskens et al. (2006) find strong support for “make versus buy and ally versus buy decisions” (p. 519).”