This paper provides a comprehensive review of the empirical literature in transaction cost
economics (TCE) across multiple social science disciplines and business fields. We show …

As franchising has increased its visibility and impact on the business landscape, it has
attracted the attention of a wide variety of researchers from different academic backgrounds …

Transaction cost economics (TCE) is one of the leading perspectives in management and
organizational studies, yet debate continues regarding its empirical support. In this paper …

Abstract Since Ronald H. Coase's (1937) seminal paper, a rich set of theories has been
developed that deal with firm boundaries in vertical or input–output structures. In the last …

Transaction cost economics, neoclassical economics, and the firm capabilities literatures
propose theories of the firm that typically depict firm boundaries determined by a …

Although uncovering the factors that lead firms to offer franchises has long been a central
goal of franchising research, considerable ambiguity surrounds extant findings. In an effort to …

Using an extensive longitudinal data set on franchising firms, we show that established
franchisors manage their portfolio of company and franchised units to maintain a particular …

A study of 439 franchisors was conducted to identify factors influencing changes in their
propensity to franchise. Consistent with agency theory, franchisors with wide multinational …

Vertical integration occupies a central role in organizational economics. Williamson (2005)
calls it the “paradigm” problem for explaining the distribution of firms and markets in modern …

Abstract Using a Transaction Cost Economics framework, this paper studies how supply
chain governance are aligned with the type of quality enforcement mechanisms used in …