Electronic markets, search costs, and firm boundaries

Information Systems Research

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 154-169

  Sankaranarayanan, Ramesh ^a   Sundararajan, Arun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency theory; Analytical modeling; Economics of IS; Electronic commerce; Electronic markets; Information systems and organizational change; Interorganizational information systems; It and new organizational forms; It impacts on industry and market structure; It enabled supply chains; Moral hazard; Outsourcing; Search costs

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODELS; COMMERCE; COSTS; ECONOMICS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OUTSOURCING; RISK MANAGEMENT; SUPPLY CHAINS;

AGENCY THEORY; ECONOMICS OF IS; ELECTRONIC MARKET; INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MARKET STRUCTURES; MORAL HAZARD; NEW ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE; SEARCH COSTS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 77954274028     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1090.0235     Document Type: Article

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