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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...
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Transaction Management: Value Creation by Reducing Transaction Costs
den Butter, Frank A.G. - 2010
In this era of globalization we see an increase in specialization: the production chain issplit up in more and more parts and the production of these parts is outsourced to thoseplaces in the world where production is relatively cheapest and most efficient. Itimplies that transaction costs,...
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Gains and Pains from Contract Research: A Transaction and Firm-level Perspective
Kaiser, Ulrich; Grimpe, Christoph - 2008
outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297987
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External technology supply and client-side innovation
Peukert, Christian - 2011
literature. Some authors find beneficial effects of IT outsourcing, others underline that firms often fail to achieve expected … support the theoretical arguments and suggest a positive linear relationship between the level of outsourcing and process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307847
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Contracting out, an Empirical Study on Motives
Wassenaar, Mattheus; Groot, Tom; Gradus, Raymond - 2010
Municipalities may have various motives for decisions on the mode of their task execution. Empirical studies – based on both public choice and transaction costs theory - have not yet provided a fully comprehensive explanation for municipal contracting out decisions. Therefore, we held...
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Limited financial market participation: A transaction cost-based explantation
Paiella, Monica - 2001
This paper focuses on the issue of limited financial market participation and determines a lower bound on the level of fixed transaction costs that are required to reconcile observed portfolio choices with asset returns within an isoelastic utility framework. The bound is determined from the set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293023
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Global Climate Policy and Corresponding Activities on a City-Level
Sippel, Maike - 2004
Cities are not affected by global climate policy and the Kyoto Protocol – however many of them engage in voluntary activities. This paper analyses how communities in general and especially the city of Hamburg can contribute to global climate protection in their citypartnerships according to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295413
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Competition intensity, potential competition and transaction cost economics
Busse, Matthias - 2002
Determinanten des Globalisierungsgrades einer Branche ist die Höhe der Transaktionskosten. Niedrige Transaktionskosten führen … tendenziell zu globalisierten Märkten, hohe Transaktionskosten entsprechend zu segmentierten Märkten. Hinzu kommt, dass … Transaktionskosten auch Auskunft über den Grad des potentiellen Wettbewerbs geben können. Damit erhalten Wettbewerbsbehörden einen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295506
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Transaktionskosten und Wettbewerbspolitik
Busse, Matthias - 2001
Branche vor allem durch die Höhe der Transaktionskosten. Niedrige Transaktionskosten führen tendenziell zu globalisierten … Märkten, hohe Transaktionskosten zu segmentierten Märkten. Damit kommt den Transaktionskosten eine erhebliche Bedeutung im … Determinanten zu beachten. Zudem sind die Transaktionskosten nur relativ ungenau zu berechnen, weshalb dieser Ansatz nicht allgemein …
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Conflict of law rules and international trade : a transaction costs approach
Kirstein, Roland; Schmidtchen, Dieter; Neunzig, Alexander R. - 2004
Der Beitrag stellt eine auf der Transaktionskosten-Ökonomik basierende Analyse von Kollisionsnormen vor. Hierzu wird …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296890