This dissertation investigates the driving forces behind the emerging phenomenon of “organizational modularity”, by which firms create “virtual” organizations through outsourcing functions, by using contract manufacturers, by forming alliances, and by using temporary employment contracts, as they organize their activities within supply chains. Using transaction cost analysis as the overarching theoretical framework for the analysis, a number of hypotheses that relate industry structure to modularity are developed. A large scale industry-level data set is used to test the hypotheses…
Author: Cheng, Liang-Chieh
Source: University of Maryland
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