This paper classifies empirical research on vertical integration under four approaches--value-added-to-sales, qualitative-quantitative, input-output and microanalytic. The emphasis here is on the microanalytic approach which has accumulated the most systematic evidence to support its theoretical...

Following an efficiency perspective and a micro-analytic approach, this paper provides an organizational economics foundation to guide managers in matching the comparatively more efficient organizational mode with firm-level transactions possessing certain transactional characteristics. In...

To date, research which integrates corporate governance and risk management has been limited. Yet, risk exposure and management are increasingly becoming the core function of modern business enterprises in various sectors and industries domestically and globally. Risk identification and...