Transaction Cost Economics: An Assessment of Empirical Research in the Social Sciences

By Jeffrey T. Macher, Barak D. Richman. Business and Politics, 2006

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Subfields: Accounting, Strategy and Management

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Why Do Firms Both Make and Buy? An Investigation of Concurrent Sourcing (2007, positive): “Boerner and Macher offer an extensive review of over 600 papers based upon TCE principles demonstrating the wide range of questions investigated, from international entry modes for multinational corporations, to rock band membership and prenuptial agreements ( Boerner and Macher, 2002 ).”
The Many Futures of Contracts (2014, methodology): “More thorough reviews of this literature are available (see David & Han, 2004; Furlotti, 2007; Lajili et al., 2007; Macher & Richman, 2008; Masten & Saussier, 2000).”
Within or Without? How Firms Combine Internal and External Labor Markets to Fill Jobs (2014, background): “Particular contributions of our theory are to introduce performance variability as an important, job-level determinant of how jobs are filled, and to emphasize the importance of looking at the interactions among transaction characteristics (Macher & Richman, 2008; Mahoney, 2005).”
Make, buy, or ally: A transaction cost theory meta-analysis (2006, background): “cial science disciplines, Boerner and Macher (2002) identified more than 600 articles that investigate some aspect of transaction cost theory.”
Transaction Cost Economics As a Theory of Supply Chain Efficiency (2020, background): “An additional challenge with empirical research in the general management literature on TCE is the reliance on proxy variables (Macher and Richman 2008).”
The end of the opportunism vs trust debate: Bounded reliability as a new envelope concept in research on MNE governance (2009, background): “Moreover, research that actually attempts to measure opportunism directly is scarce (Boerner & Macher, 2001).”
Using Transaction Cost Economics to explain outsourcing of accounting (2010, background): “An extensive part of the empirical research on outsourcing adopts this TCE framework ( Boerner and Macher 2002 ).”