Transaction-Cost Economics: The Governance of Contractual Relations
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
The TCE approach and the social embeddedness perspective have had a central role in framing most definitions of cooperation that focus on attitude.
“The TCE approach (Williamson, 1979(Williamson, , 1991) ) and the social embeddedness perspective (Granovetter, 1985) have had a central role in framing most definitions of cooperation that focus on attitude.”
From Collaboration, Coordination, and Cooperation Among Organizations: Establishing the Distinctive Meanings of These Terms Through a Systematic Literature Review (2020) · cites this paper as Williamson, 1979
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Comparative Economic Organization: The Analysis of Discrete Structural Alternatives
Williamson, O. E. (1991) · Administrative Science Quarterly · doi:10.2307/2393356 · Cited by 7,151 · see citing works
Self-citationDeterminants of Long-Term Orientation in Buyer-Seller Relationships
Ganesan, S. (1994) · Journal of Marketing · doi:10.1177/002224299405800201 · Cited by 6,741 · see citing works
Knowledge of the Firm and the Evolutionary Theory of the Multinational Corporation
Kogut, B., & Zander, U. (1993) · Journal of International Business Studies · doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8490248 · Cited by 3,967 · see citing works
The Role of Market Forces in Assuring Contractual Performance
Klein, B., & Leffler, K. B. (1981) · Journal of Political Economy · doi:10.1086/260996 · Cited by 3,653 · see citing works
Wade, M., & Hulland, J. (2004) · MIS Quarterly · doi:10.2307/25148626 · Cited by 2,822 · see citing works
Relationship Quality in Services Selling: An Interpersonal Influence Perspective
Crosby, L. A., Evans, K. R., & Cowles, D. (1990) · Journal of Marketing · doi:10.1177/002224299005400306 · Cited by 4,763 · see citing works
Rousseau, D. M. (1990) · Journal of Organizational Behavior · doi:10.1002/job.4030110506 · Cited by 1,811 · see citing works
Big data analytics in E-commerce: a systematic review and agenda for future research
Akter, S., & Wamba, S. F. (2016) · Electronic Markets · doi:10.1007/s12525-016-0219-0 · Cited by 684 · see citing works
A transactions theory of trade credit use
Ferris, J. S. (1981) · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · doi:10.2307/1882390 · Cited by 603 · see citing works
Blockchains and the economic institutions of capitalism
DAVIDSON, S., DE FILIPPI, P., & POTTS, J. (2018) · Journal of Institutional Economics · doi:10.1017/s1744137417000200 · Cited by 582 · see citing works
Competing with complementors: An empirical look at Amazon.com
Zhu, F., & Liu, Q. (2018) · Strategic Management Journal · doi:10.1002/smj.2932 · Cited by 546 · see citing works
Castañer, X., & Oliveira, N. (2020) · Journal of Management · doi:10.1177/0149206320901565 · Cited by 525 · see citing works
Conceptualizing Historical Organization Studies
Maclean, M., Harvey, C., & Clegg, S. R. (2016) · Academy of Management Review · doi:10.5465/amr.2014.0133 · Cited by 410 · see citing works
Network configuration and innovation success: An empirical analysis in German high-tech industries
Gemünden, H. G., Ritter, T., & Heydebreck, P. (1996) · International Journal of Research in Marketing · doi:10.1016/s0167-8116(96)00026-2 · Cited by 376 · see citing works
Boundary Spanning in Global Organizations
Schotter, A. P. J., Mudambi, R., Doz, Y. L., & Gaur, A. (2017) · Journal of Management Studies · doi:10.1111/joms.12256 · Cited by 363 · see citing works
Zachariadis, M., Hileman, G., & Scott, S. V. (2019) · Information and Organization · doi:10.1016/j.infoandorg.2019.03.001 · Cited by 324 · see citing works
Supply chain evolution – theory, concepts and science
MacCarthy, B. L., Blome, C., Olhager, J., Srai, J. S., & Zhao, X. (2016) · International Journal of Operations & Production Management · doi:10.1108/ijopm-02-2016-0080 · Cited by 260 · see citing works
A Systematic Review of Literature on Offshoring of Value Chain Activities
Schmeisser, B. (2013) · Journal of International Management · doi:10.1016/j.intman.2013.03.011 · Cited by 228 · see citing works
Handley, S. M., & Angst, C. M. (2015) · Strategic Management Journal · doi:10.1002/smj.2300 · Cited by 213 · see citing works
Ledro, C., Nosella, A., & Vinelli, A. (2022) · Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing · doi:10.1108/jbim-07-2021-0332 · Cited by 216 · see citing works
Handley, S. M., & Benton, W. C. (2013) · Journal of Operations Management · doi:10.1016/j.jom.2012.12.003 · Cited by 198 · see citing works
Gong, Y., Shenkar, O., Luo, Y., & Nyaw, M. (2007) · Strategic Management Journal · doi:10.1002/smj.626 · Cited by 192 · see citing works
Institutional design for complex technological systems
Koppenjan, J., & Groenewegen, J. (2005) · International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management · doi:10.1504/ijtpm.2005.008406 · Cited by 141 · see citing works
The Role of Ambidexterity in Managing Buyer–Supplier Relationships: The Toyota Case
Aoki, K., & Wilhelm, M. (2017) · Organization Science · doi:10.1287/orsc.2017.1156 · Cited by 130 · see citing works
6. Tracking through drought: options for destocking and restocking
Toulmin, C. (1995) · Living with Uncertainty · doi:10.3362/9781780445335.006 · Cited by 79 · see citing works
Consumer Information and Decisions to Switch Insurers
Schlesinger, H., & von der Schulenburg, J.-M. G. (1993) · The Journal of Risk and Insurance · doi:10.2307/253381 · Cited by 82 · see citing works
Benedek, Z., Fertő, I., & Molnár, A. (2018) · Agriculture and Human Values · doi:10.1007/s10460-017-9834-4 · Cited by 71 · see citing works
Haftor, D. M., Costa Climent, R., & Lundström, J. E. (2021) · Journal of Business Research · doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.04.015 · Cited by 60 · see citing works
Formal and Informal Contracting: Theory and Evidence
Gil, R., & Zanarone, G. (2017) · Annual Review of Law and Social Science · doi:10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-110316-113413 · Cited by 56 · see citing works
Islam, M. T., & Chadee, D. (2024) · International Business Review · doi:10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102248 · Cited by 37 · see citing works
- Authors
- Williamson, O. E.
- Corresponding author
- Williamson, Oliver E.
- Venue
- The Journal of Law and Economics
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1979-10
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 233-261
- ISSN
- 0022-2186 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5285
- OpenAlex
- W2056621186
- Cited by
- 10,190
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 307 · 2025: 383 · 2024: 334 · 2023: 366 · 2022: 382 · 2021: 407 · 2020: 407 · 2019: 425 · 2018: 434 · 2017: 402 · 2016: 415 · 2015: 431 · 2014: 411 · 2013: 377 · 2012: 417
- FWCI
- 60.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Journal of Law and Economics (publishedVersion)
- bepress Legal Repository (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management Information Systems › Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economic Theory and Institutions
- Keywords
- transaction cost economics, governance, contractual relations, contract enforcement, principal-agent relationship, agency theory
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review