The purpose of this paper is to propose and discuss a framework to study the embeddedness of technology adoption. This paper embraces the view expressed under the notion ‘no business is an island’, here labeled and discussed as the embeddedness argument. The view emphasizes that firms and firm decisions and technology need to be studied with reference to the context, e.g., forces and constraint...

This paper focuses on ex post governance of inter-firm transactions. We develop and test hypotheses on the occurrence of ex post problems like delivery delays, inferior quality, and insufficient service in buyer–supplier transactions. Our hypotheses address effects of transaction characteristics, of social embeddedness, and of contractual governance on the occurrence of problems. Other than ear...