Contractual Commitments, Bargaining Power, and Governance Inseparability: Incorporating History into Transaction Cost Theory
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Academy of Management in Academy of Management Review
- Vol. 24 (1), 49-63
- https://doi.org/10.2307/259036
Abstract
We extend transaction cost economics by arguing that prior contractual commitments made by a firm can limit its ability to differentiate or change its governanc...This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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