The incompleteness of research on firm boundaries

Strategic Organization

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 227-236

  Walker, Gordon ^a  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993778156     PISSN: 14761270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476127007079970     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Anderson, E. and Schmittlein, D. (1984) ‘Integration of the Sales Force: An Empirical Examination ’, Rand Journal of Economics 15: 385–95.
2. Argyres, N. (1996) ‘Evidence on the Role of Capabilities in Vertical Integration Decisions’, Strategic Management Journal 17: 129–50.
3. Argyres, N., Bercovitz, J. and Mayer, K. (2007) ‘Complementarity and Evolution of Contractual Provisions: An Empirical Study of IT Services Contracts’, Organization Science 18: 3–19.
4. Baker, G. and Hubbard, T. (2003) ‘Make v. Buy in Trucking: Asset Ownership, Job Design and Information’, American Economic Review 93.
5. Cheung, S. (1983) ‘The Contractual Nature of the Firm’, Journal of Law and Economics 1–21.
6. Eccles, R. (1985) The Transfer Pricing Problem. Lexington, MA: Lexington.
7. Goldberg, V. (1976) ‘Regulation and Administered Contracts’, The Bell Journal of Economics 7: 426–48.
8. Grossman, S. and Hart, O. (1986) ‘The Costs and Benefits of Ownership: A Theory of Lateral and Vertical Integration’, Journal of Political Economy 94: 691–719.
9. Hart, O. and Moore, J. (1990) ‘Property Rights and the Nature of the Firm’, Journal of Political Economy 98: 1119–58.
10. Holmstrom, B. and Milgrom, P. (1994) ‘The Firm as an Incentive System’, American Economic Review 84: 972–91.
11. Holmstrom, B. and Roberts, J. (1998) ‘The Boundaries of the Firm Revisited’, The Journal of Economic Perspectives 12: 73–94.
12. Masten, S. (1984) ‘The Organization of Production: Evidence from the Aerospace Industry’, Journal of Law and Economics 27: 403–17.
13. Masten, S. (1988) ‘A Legal Basis for the Firm’, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 4: 181–98.
14. Mayer, K.J. and Argyres, N. (2004) ‘Learning to Contract: Evidence from the Personal Computer Industry’, Organization Science 15: 394–410.
15. Monteverde, K. and Teece, D. ‘Supplier Switching Costs and Vertical Integration in the Automobile Industry’, Bell Journal of Economics 13: 206–13.
16. Nickerson, J.A. and Silverman, B.S. (2003) ‘Why Firms Want to Organize Efficiently and What Keeps them from Doing So: Inappropriate Governance, Performance, and Adaptation in a Deregulated Industry’, Administrative Science Quarterly 48: 433–65.
17. Nickerson, J.A., Hamilton, B. and Wada, T. (2001) ‘Market Position, Resource Profile, and Governance: Linking Porter and Williamson in the Context of International Courier and Small Package Services in Japan’, Strategic Management Journal 22(3): 251–73.
18. Powell, W. (1990) ‘Neither Market nor Hierarchy: Network Forms of Organization’, Research in Organization Behavior 12: 295–336.
19. Richman, B.D. and Macher, J. (2006) ‘Transaction Cost Economics: An Assessment of Empirical Research in the Social Sciences’, Working Paper.
20. Shelanski, H. and Klein, P.G. (1995) ‘Empirical Research in Transaction Cost Economics: A Review and Assessment’, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 11: 335–61.
21. Simon, H. (1951) ‘A Formal Theory of the Employment Relation’, Econometrica 19: 293–305.
22. Walker, G. (1994) ‘Asset Choice and Supplier Performance in Two Organizations – US and Japanese’, Organization Science 5: 583–93.
23. Walker, G. and Poppo, L. (1991) ‘Profit Centers, Single-Source Suppliers, and Transaction Costs’, Administrative Science Quarterly 36: 66–87.
24. Walker, G. and Weber, D. (1984) ‘A Transaction Cost Approach to Make or Buy Decisions’, Administrative Science Quarterly 29: 373–91.
25. Whinston, M. (2003) ‘On the Transaction Costs Determinants of Vertical Integration’, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 19: 1–23.
26. Williamson, O. (1981) ‘The Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach’, American Journal of Sociology 87: 548–77.
27. Williamson, O. (1985) The Economic Institutions of Capitalism. New York: The Free Press.