Internal Production versus External Exchange - A Proposal for an Empirical Test of the Transaction Cost Model.

Abstract

In this paper a theoretical model is proposed, that allows investigation of why certain organizations manufacture goods internally, while other organizations seek to get supply from other companies. The transaction cost model elaborated here, explains how the characteristics of the production or exchange requirements affect this choice. A number of hypotheses are derived out of this model and an approach to empirically test these hypotheses is proposed and elaborated. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA118139

Entities

People

  • Guido Krickx

Organizations

  • University of California, Los Angeles

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Agreements
  • Classification
  • Commerce
  • Computers
  • Corporations
  • Cost Models
  • Economics
  • Electronics
  • Electronics Industry
  • Hypotheses
  • Materials
  • Military Research
  • Organizational Structure
  • Property Rights
  • Semiconductors
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Business

Readers

  • Industrial Economics
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Regression Analysis.