Australia's Cooperative Research Centre Program: A transaction cost theory perspective

A Trade Value Perspective on Ecommerce Research: An Integration of Transaction Value and Transaction Cost Theories

The impact of web-based electronic commerce on the process of disintermediation and re-intermediation has been extensively studied. Two major limitations of the existing work are the focus on a single economic measure (i.e., transaction cost minimization) and the examination of channel-structure decisions from only a single perspective (the seller’s). This paper introduces transactional value t...

Transmission cost allocation based on cooperative game theory

Modelling the Intention to Adopt Cloud Computing Services: A Transaction Cost Theory Perspective

This paper uses transaction cost theory to study cloud computing adoption. A model is developed and tested with data from an Australian survey. According to the results, perceived vendor opportunism and perceived legislative uncertainty around cloud computing were significantly associated with perceived cloud computing security risk. There was also a significant negative relationship between pe...

Online Content Syndication - A Critical Analysis From The Perspective Of Transaction Cost Theory

Substantial economies of scale in the production of information goods give reasons for considering the outsourcing of the production. The trade in information goods – resulting from the outsourcing of the production – is a typical transaction which can be analysed using transaction cost theory. Taking into account the particular characteristics of information goods and the process of delivering...

IT outsourcing and firm-level performance: A transaction cost perspective

We analyzed the effect of the level of low asset specificity IT outsourcing on firm-level financial performance. We used transaction cost economics (TCE) as the theoretical basis to explain the effect of the level of network and telecommunication services outsourced on financial performance. An analysis of 1444 Integrated Healthcare Delivery Systems revealed that higher levels of network and te...