Using a Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) approach, this paper explores which organizational forms Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) may take. A critical question about form is the amount of vertical integration that an ACO may have, a topic central to TCE. We posit that contextual factors outside and inside an ACO will produce variable transaction costs (the non-production costs of care) su...

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...

Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) theory is widely used to explain the appropriate governance structure for make-or-buy decisions. We adopt this theory to analyze firms’ decisions and choices about offshore outsourcing, domestic outsourcing and internal procurement. The main findings of this paper are as follows: When asset specificity is low, offshore outsourcing is preferable. As asset specifi...

A variety of contract typologies that exist in the literature are helpful exploration different approaches contractual relations, but only when measured with right instruments. Although Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) has a distinct, high-level, and abstract typology for contracts, it still lacks measurement scale. In this paper, scale TCE (classical, neo-classical, relational contracts) was d...

Recent reviews of the information technology outsourcing (ITO) literature report high variance in research results when Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) is used as the analytical framework. Informed by ITO market developments, including increasing commoditisation, market consolidation, and market transparency, we develop an explanation for these mixed results contingent on ITO industry maturity...

Industrial buyer-seller relationships are frequently characterized by the fact that the seller and/or the buyer have to dedicate specific up-front investments to the relationship. Marketing research analyzes these relationships on the basis of Transaction Cost Economics (TCE). TCE highlights the risk of hold-up which arises after specific investments are dedicated. However, exogenous uncertaint...

IS research has considered the outsourcing decision from the perspective of transaction cost economics (TCE) and institutional theory. In this research, we consider how the appropriation of the logic of transaction cost economics is contingent on decision makers’ institutional context. The institutional contexts contrasted are professional versus political Ritu Agarwal was the accepting senior ...

The quality of outsourced IT services can be traced to attributes of the services such as tangibles, responsiveness, reliability, assurance, and empathy. The relative impact of these attributes on client satisfaction varies across different IT services (applications, data center, EUC support, network administration, and help desk), and one or few attributes stand out as “drivers” of client sati...

This paper examines the relationship between downsizing, outsourcing and employment relations (ER) in the Australian and New Zealand telecommunications sectors following deregulation. It uses transaction cost economics (TCE), strategic management and institutional economics theories to analyse and compare the organisational restructuring and ER strategies of the two incumbent firms — Telstra an...