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Procurement: the transaction costs perspective in a globalising world
Butter, Frank A. G. den - 2007 - This version: 19 November 2007
Fragmentation of production into more and more complex supply chains is a prominent feature of globalisation. It implies that transaction costs as part of total costs of ownership carry a large weight in procurement decisions. An analysis of the various types of transaction costs is also...
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Procurement : the transaction costs perspective in a globalising world
Butter, Frank A. G. den - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003643956
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Toward a Model of Strategic Outsourcing
Holcomb, Tim R. - 2009
Acknowledging efficiency motives, firms have increasingly turned to outsourcing in an effort to capture cost savings …. Transaction cost theory (TCT) has been the dominant means of explaining outsourcing as an economizing approach whereby cost … to strategic outsourcing …
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Outsourcing Decisions in Global Supply Chains : An Exploratory Multi-Country Survey
Schoenherr, Tobias - 2013
Outsourcing has become a necessity for most companies in today’s competitive environment, which is also evidenced by a … outsourcing decisions and practices by organizations in different countries. The present research aims to contribute to this area …, interesting empirical exploratory insights are reported on the evolving approaches and concepts of outsourcing decision-making in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014038679
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Procurement: The Transaction Costs Perspective in a Globalising World
den Butter, Frank A.G. - 2007
Fragmentation of production into more and more complex supply chains is a prominent feature of globalisation. It implies that transaction costs as part of total costs of ownership carry a large weight in procurement decisions. An analysis of the various types of transaction costs is also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325237
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Transaction costs and the duration of contracts
MacKay, Alexander - 2017
The optimal duration of a supply contract balances the costs of re-selecting a supplier against the costs of being matched to an inefficient supplier when the contract lasts too long. I develop a structural model of contract duration that captures this tradeoff and provide an empirical strategy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011928977
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Supplier dynamics in horticultural export chains : evidence from Ecuador ; revised version
Romero, Cristina; Wollni, Meike - 2015 - Revised version
In this paper we study the dynamics of smallholder participation in export value chains focusing on the example of small-scale broccoli producers in the highlands of Ecuador. We analyze the extent of participation over an 11-year time period using correlated random effects and diff-GMM models...
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Reviewing the online tourism value chain
Berne-Manero, Carmen; Gómez-Campillo, Maria; Marzo … - In: Administrative Sciences : open access journal 8 (2018) 3/48, pp. 1-18
The booking purchase process in B2C tourism online from the perspective of the quality-satisfaction-loyalty value chain has scarcely been investigated. The measurement models of the variables are not unified and essential variables, as transaction costs, need more research in order to achieve a...
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A new logistic model of market information asymmetry reduction in Poland
Gołembska, Elzbieta - In: Logistics 5 (2021) 1/5, pp. 1-19
The article presents the first theoretical and empirical estimation of the role of logistics in mitigating the effects of market information asymmetry in Poland. Following a review of international (Akerlof, Spencer, Stiglitz) and Polish literature (Gołembska, Gruszecki, Stradomski), a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012426162
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The effects of collaboration on logistical performance and transaction costs
Vieira, José Geraldo Vidal; Yoshizak, Hugo Tsugunobu … - In: The international journal of business science & applied … 10 (2015) 1, pp. 1-14
This paper assesses the effect of supplier-retailer collaboration on logistical performance and transaction costs from the viewpoint of retail sector suppliers. The methodology consists of an empirical study conducted over nine months in the logistics department of a large Brazilian supermarket...
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