Organizational boundaries and economic performance: An empirical study of entrepreneurial computer firms

Strategic Management Journal - Tập 12 Số 2 - Trang 115-133 - 1991
Elaine Mosakowski1
1Crtis L. Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.

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AbstractThis research examines the relationship between the organizational boundaries of entrepreneurial firms and their economic performance. The theoretical basis for this work is transaction cost economics research regarding when internalizing certain activities will be preferred over contracting. To consider the conditions under which contracting is costly we compare across three functional areas and three firm strategies. The results of a longitudinal analysis of 122 entrepreneurial firms in the computer industry show that performance effects are associated with contracting activities and that product market strategies moderate the performance effects of contracting. The results are mixed in their support for the predictions of transaction cost economics.

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