Make, Buy, or Ally: A Transaction Cost Theory Meta-Analysis

A Transaction Cost Approach to Make-or-Buy Decisions

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Transaction Cost Approach to Component Make-or-Buy Decisions

Make-or-Buy in the Age of Open Source: A Transaction Cost Analysis

Since their appearance, open source communities have become increasingly successful and seemingly pose a real threat to traditional proprietary software vendors. Because open source software has now achieved both recognition and legitimacy, obtaining products and services from communities offers firms an additional alternative in traditional make-or-buy decisions. Transaction cost economics has...

Make , Buy , or Cooperate ?

In 1937, Ronald Coase argued that firms will exist only in environments in which firms perform better than markets could. To create space for firms, Coase suggested that some environments might be plagued by “transaction costs” that cause markets to perform poorly. Coase’s paper was to become the cornerstone of the economic theory of the firm (i.e., the “make or buy” decision: which activities ...

Make, Buy, or Ally? Choice of and Payoff from Announcements of Alternate Strategies for Innovations

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