The effect of manufacturing technology on purchase contracts.

TECHNOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC INTERFIRM TIES

Both transaction cost economics (TCE) and contingency theory (CT) highlight the problem of interfirm dependency and vertical coordination).[1] Drawing on these two theoretical perspectives, this paper explores the effect of the interplay between economic and technological interfirm dependency on purchase contracting.

Basic works within the CT tradition conceptualize the process of intrafirm dependency and coordination.[2] This research gives focus to interorganizational coordination, and several research contributions have found that the mechanisms of intraorganizational coordination hold also for ...