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== Transaction Cost Theory ==
* Different forms of economics organizations such as
* market
* hierarchical
* clans
* are the result of transaction costs.
* Transaction costs generally refers to costs involving other than manufacturing products. For example,
* gathering information
* evaluating alternative options
* negotiating
* contracting
* physical transactions of objects
* These costs occur due to the complexity and uncertainty of economic system, which is a big argument against "rational choice" model of economic system.
* Such statuses are consequences of unequal distribution of information between economic actors involved in the transaction.
* Therefore, organizational forms are the result of managing uncertainties.

SA. Principal Agent Theory
== Readings and Applications ==
* Ebers, Mark, & Oerlemans, Leon. (2013). The Variety of Governance Structures Beyond Market and Hierarchy. ''Journal of Management''. [http://jom.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/10/21/0149206313506938.abstract doi: 10.1177/0149206313506938]
* Cordella, Antonio. (2006). [http://csrc.lse.ac.uk/asp/aspecis/20010024.pdf Transaction costs and information systems: does IT add up?] Journal of Information Technology, 21(3), 195-202.
* Cordella, Antonio. (2006). [http://csrc.lse.ac.uk/asp/aspecis/20010024.pdf Transaction costs and information systems: does IT add up?] ''Journal of Information Technology, 21''(3), 195-202.
* http://sprouts.aisnet.org/118/1/040206.pdf
* Robins, James A. (1987). Organizational Economics: Notes on the Use of Transaction-Cost Theory in the Study of Organizations. Administrative science quarterly, 32(1).
* Software Development Strategy: A Practical Application of Transaction Cost Economics


Transaction Cost Theory

  • Different forms of economics organizations such as
    • market
    • hierarchical
    • clans
  • are the result of transaction costs.
  • Transaction costs generally refers to costs involving other than manufacturing products. For example,
    • gathering information
    • evaluating alternative options
    • negotiating
    • contracting
    • physical transactions of objects
  • These costs occur due to the complexity and uncertainty of economic system, which is a big argument against "rational choice" model of economic system.
  • Such statuses are consequences of unequal distribution of information between economic actors involved in the transaction.
  • Therefore, organizational forms are the result of managing uncertainties.


SA. Principal Agent Theory

Readings and Applications


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