A systematic assessment of the empirical support for transaction cost economics

By Robert J. David, Shin-Kap Han. 2004

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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Safety Research, Strategy and Management

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The Essence of Dynamic Capabilities and their Measurement (2018, neutral): “We followed the procedure developed by David and Han (2004) and Newbert (2007) in identifying prior empirical studies for our review, and will next describe the process in detail.”
Empirical research on entrepreneurial orientation: An assessment and suggestions for future research (2013, methodology): “This multi-step approach is an extension of the procedure developed by David and Han (2004), which has served as a robust and replicable literature review method in two important areas of enquiry: the resource-based view (Newbert, 2007) and transaction-cost economics (David and Han, 2004).”
Clearing a Path Through the Forest: A Meta-Review of Interorganizational Relationships (2011, result): “Overall empirical support for TCE arguments is mixed, with some review studies finding strong empirical support (Geyskens et al., 2006; Masten & Saussier, 2000) and others indicating less robust results (Carter & Hodgson, 2006; David & Han, 2004).”
Why Do Firms Both Make and Buy? An Investigation of Concurrent Sourcing (2007, neutral): “This is curious, especially given the scores of papers exploring hybrid forms and investigating the make/buy decision that generally have supported transaction cost logic (for reviews see Crocker and Masten, 1996; Rindfleisch and Heide, 1997; Boerner and Macher, 2002; and David and Han, 2004).”
Constructing Markets and Shaping Boundaries: Entrepreneurial Power in Nascent Fields (2009, background): “Indeed, much empirical research represents an atomistic view that focuses primarily on the antecedents of single-boundary decisions in crosssectional samples ( David & Han, 2004 ).”
Measuring State, Effect, and Response Uncertainty: Theoretical Construct Development and Empirical Validation (2010, result): “A review of empirical studies by David and Han (2004) found that results were contradictory, with 24% of tests in the direction posited by TCE and 16% counter to the theory.”
Organizing Around Transaction Costs: What Have We Learned and Where Do We Go from Here? (2013, methodology): “We also examined reference sections of reviews of extant TCE-based inquiry (e.g., David & Han, 2004; Geyskens et al., 2006; Rindfleisch & Heide, 1997) and sent e-mails seeking effect size estimates from authors whose studies reported empirical results but did not include such estimates.”
Resources and transaction costs: how property rights economics furthers the resource‐based view (2005, background): “Work on this issue may utilize operationalizations and measures that have been developed in the empirical literature on transaction cost economics (David and Han, 2004).”