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The effect of manufacturing technology on purchase contracts.

International Journal of Purchasing and Materials Management

| September 22, 1998 | Buvik, Arnt | COPYRIGHT 1998 National Association of Purchasing Management, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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 ...

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