Firm Boundaries and Production Capabilities: Endogenizing Transaction Costs

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shyam Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Firm Boundaries

Post-Soviet Privatization in the Light of the Coase Theorem (Transaction Costs and Governance Costs)

2003 ◽  
pp. 120-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Andreff
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Initial Distribution ◽  
Coase Theorem ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Firm Boundaries ◽  
Governance Costs ◽  
The Relationship

A Coasian theoretical perspective is assumed to be in the background of most post-Soviet economies' privatization drives. The assumption of zero transaction costs underlying the Coase theorem guarantees an efficient reallocation of property rights whatever is their initial distribution. Once this assumption is relaxed, the result predicted by the Coase theorem is less certain and clashes with the nature of the firm as it has been analyzed earlier by Coase himself. This preliminary presentation is used as a critical driver to provide a non-mainstream assessment of privatization objectives in Russia that became so obviously high in the early years of the transition process. A Coasian analysis also helps to figure out the post-privatization firm boundaries and to design in-house restructuring as well as industrial restructuring - between industrial branches. The issue of the firm boundaries is crucial in the relationship between privatization and restructuring. Finally, we come to terms with the analysis of post-privatization property rights and corporate governance and their possible (governance) costs for in-house restructuring. The last section is devoted to an evaluation of standard and non-standard methods of privatization.

Firm boundaries and transaction costs: The complementary role of capabilities

2017 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 193-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boge Gulbrandsen ◽  
C. Jay Lambe ◽  
Kåre Sandvik
Keyword(s):  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Firm Boundaries ◽  
Complementary Role

Capabilities, Transaction Costs, and Firm Boundaries

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 1643-1657 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas S. Argyres ◽  
Todd R. Zenger
Keyword(s):  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Firm Boundaries

From transaction costs to transaction value: Overcoming the frictional paradigm

2020 ◽  
pp. 51-81
Author(s):  
D. P. Frolov
Keyword(s):  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Transaction Cost ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Transaction Cost Economics ◽  
Cost Minimization ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Coase Theorem ◽  
Transactional Analysis ◽  
Transaction Sector ◽  
Transaction Value

The transaction cost economics has accumulated a mass of dogmatic concepts and assertions that have acquired high stability under the influence of path dependence. These include the dogma about transaction costs as frictions, the dogma about the unproductiveness of transactions as a generator of losses, “Stigler—Coase” theorem and the logic of transaction cost minimization, and also the dogma about the priority of institutions providing low-cost transactions. The listed dogmas underlie the prevailing tradition of transactional analysis the frictional paradigm — which, in turn, is the foundation of neo-institutional theory. Therefore, the community of new institutionalists implicitly blocks attempts of a serious revision of this dogmatics. The purpose of the article is to substantiate a post-institutional (alternative to the dominant neo-institutional discourse) value-oriented perspective for the development of transactional studies based on rethinking and combining forgotten theoretical alternatives. Those are Commons’s theory of transactions, Wallis—North’s theory of transaction sector, theory of transaction benefits (T. Sandler, N. Komesar, T. Eggertsson) and Zajac—Olsen’s theory of transaction value. The article provides arguments and examples in favor of broader explanatory possibilities of value-oriented transactional analysis.

Non-Public Monetary Systems in information Economy

2013 ◽  
pp. 151-159
Author(s):  
O. Krasilnikov ◽  
E. Krasilnikova
Keyword(s):  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Information Economy ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
Monetary Systems ◽  
Public Money ◽  
Economic Institution

The article discusses the development of non-public monetary systems (NPMS), defined as a specific economic institution. It presents their comparison with public money systems depending on the size of transaction costs. The authors come to the conclusion that in conditions of the information economy on the basis of Internet-technologies NPMS receive a new impetus to their development and can make serious competition in regard to public monetary systems.

Transactions in science in comparative perspective

2018 ◽  
pp. 52-69
Author(s):  
A. N. Oleinik
Keyword(s):  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Academic Freedom ◽  
North American ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Scientific Productivity ◽  
Institutional Environments ◽  
Academic Administrator ◽  
The North ◽  
American Case ◽  
Transactional Approach

The article develops a transactional approach to studying science. Two concepts play a particularly important role: the institutional environment of science and scientific transaction. As an example, the North-American and Russian institutional environments of science are compared. It is shown that structures of scientific transactions (between peers, between the scholar and the academic administrator, between the professor and the student), transaction costs and the scope of academic freedom differ in these two cases. Transaction costs are non-zero in both cases, however. At the same time, it is hypothesized that a greater scope of academic freedom in the North American case may be a factor contributing to a higher scientific productivity.

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