No matter what type of relationship a buyer has with a particular supplier, the buyer faces the decision of whether to either stay with the supplier or to switch to another supplier. This paper introduces a model of the buyer's switching decision that integrates tenets of both transaction cost...

It has been suggested that the primary function of headquarters in a multi-divisional enterprise is to run an internal capital market in which scarce project finance is transferred from lagging units to those, which have strategic promise. Such a headquarters role is particularly relevant in...