Determinants and Management of Make-and-Buy An Extension to Transaction Cost Economics /

• Main Author: Krzeminska, Anna (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Gabler, 2009.
• Subjects: Business.; Management.; Leadership.; Business and Management.; Business Strategy/Leadership.

While making and buying are usually regarded as being mutually exclusive in extant theory, in reality, making-and-buying is employed in various contexts, such as industrial manufacturing, the media, and clinical trials. After assessing transaction cost economics as the most important theory of the m...

Table of Contents:

• The Logic of Economic Organization
• Determinants and Management of make-and-buy: Potential TCE Explanations
• Extending the TCE Framework
• Empirical Survey
• Empirical Analysis
• Conclusion.