Introduction Organizational scholars increasingly recognize trust as an important factor in intraand inter-organizational relations, significantly influencing everything from the behavior of teams to the performance of strategic alliances and supply chains. Ten years have passed since the publication of two early articles on organizational trust: Bromiley and Cummings (1995) and Cummings and Br...

Abstract: Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) is one of the most applied economic theories to studies agrifood chains, especially for presenting approaches that analyze role institutions in relationship between organizations, making it completely adherent concept Coordination, vital chain management. Agro-industrial chains have continuously experienced mechanisms reduce information asymmetry produ...

Purpose The purpose of this research is to provide an integrated approach organizational ecology, population ecology and selection mechanisms within the context resource-based view firm, evolutionary economics (EC) transaction cost (TCE). It applies framework examine interrelationships between corporate social reporting (CSR) global initiative. Design/methodology/approach methodology for paper ...

Recently, there is a growing interest in the contractual mechanisms that govern software development outsourcing (SDO). Studies on SDO frequently draw their predictive power from the identification of project attributes that explain why firms choose either fixed-price (FP) or time-and-materials (T&M) contracts. However, studies seem to adopt a unidimensional view, in the sense that they examine...

Telstra and the Telecom Corporation of New Zealand (TCNZ) are examined against the backdrop of deregulation, corporatisation and privatisation of telcommunications companies (TelCos) world-wide. This changing context has seen TelCos face new opportunities and threats amid changed product markets. The deregulation of the New Zealand and Australian telecommunications markets has been accompanied ...

Drawing on transaction cost economics (TCE) theory and the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm, we develop an integrative model of the determinants of supplier environmental collaboration with influential buyers. We hypothesize that suppliers with higher levels of (a) coordination with, (b) control over focal buyers and (c) higher levels of asset specificity in the relationship are more likel...