Vertical integration and firm boundaries : the evidence

By Francine Lafontaine, Margaret E. Slade. 2007

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

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Innovation Activities and Integration through Vertical Acquisitions (2019, background): “…optimal to leave control to the firms that perform the innovation, as their incentives are most important for the value of the vertical relationship (e.g., Aghion and Tirole (1994)), and because their employees may 1See Lafontaine and Slade (2007) and Bresnahan and Levin (2012) for recent surveys.”
HOLD-UP, ASSET OWNERSHIP, AND REFERENCE POINTS (2007, neutral): “Third, as the recent empirical survey by Lafontaine and Slade (2007) shows, payoff uncertainty does seem to be an important determinant of vertical integration (see particularly their Tables 1 and 14).”
Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration (2016, neutral): “McLaren, 2000; Grossman and Helpman, 2002; Legros and Newman, 2008). Legros and Newman (2013) is the first paper to point out that product prices can have a causal impact on integration decisions.”
Hybrid Modes of Organization. Alliances, Joint Ventures, Networks, and Other 'Strange' Animals (2013, background): “More generally, Lafontaine & Slade (2007) show that TCE prevails over agency theory when it comes to predictability, and that the later hardly explains the existence and variety of franchise systems.”
Does vertical integration affect firm performance? Evidence from the airline industry (2010, background): “Finally, this paper is also related to a small literature that investigates the effects of vertical integration on a host of other outcome variables such as prices, costs and quantities (see Lafontaine and Slade, 2007, for a summary).”
The Operational Consequences of Private Equity Buyouts: Evidence from the Restaurant Industry (2016, background): “Thus, there does not appear to be a pre-deal trend.”
Agency and institutional influences on franchising decisions (2011, background): “So far, the franchising literature has been based almost exclusively on agency theory (Combs and Ketchen, 2003; Lafontaine and Slade, 2007).”
Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation (2010, neutral): “(For reviews of this literature, see Williamson 2000, Lafontaine and Slade 2007.)”