Why Aren't All Truck Drivers Owner-Operators? Asset Ownership and the Employment Relation in Interstate For-Hire Trucking

By Jack A. Nickerson, Brian S. Silverman. 2003

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Subfields: Building and Construction, Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Flexibility in internationalization: is it valuable during an economic crisis? (2009, background): “Economic significance of marginal effects depends on the magnitude of change in the independent variables (Nickerson and Silverman, 2003).”
Transaction Cost Economics: An Assessment of Empirical Research in the Social Sciences (2006, unknown): “…that explore the performance implications of organizational choice, notably Leiblein et al. (2002), Masten et al. (1991), Mayer and Nickerson (2005) and Nickerson and Silverman (2003), find that the effects of misalignment can be substantial, leading to lower profitability and higher failure rates.”
Why Do Firms Both Make and Buy? An Investigation of Concurrent Sourcing (2007, unknown): “Similar findings have been shown in the trucking industry (Nickerson and Silverman, 2003; He and Nickerson , 2006).”
Make, buy, or ally: A transaction cost theory meta-analysis (2006, background): “Other notable exceptions are Silverman, Nickerson, and Freeman (1997) and Nickerson and Silverman (2003), studies that respectively explore the organizational failure and adaptive actions over time of inappropriately aligned organizations; both studies take advantage of the natural experiment…”
Market frictions as building blocks of an organizational economics approach to strategic management (2013, background): “…with opportunism (Akerlof, 1970; Arrow, 1974), nonfungible resources due to sunk costs and asset specificity (Baumol, Panzar, and Willig, 1982; Nickerson and Silverman, 2003), economies of scale and indivisibilities (Chandler, 1990; Scarf, 1994), demand synergies and supply-side economies of…”
How do bankruptcy laws affect entrepreneurship development around the world (2011, methodology): “estimates are difficult to interpret (Greene, 2000), we use the mfx command in STATA to obtain the elasticities of the form dy/dx at the desired values of independent variables to calculate the marginal effects of independent variables (Nickerson and Silverman, 2003).”