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Electronic commerce and governance forms: a transaction cost approach

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  • Goril Hannas
  • Otto Andersen
  • Arnt Buvik

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A large amount of the electronic commerce (EC) literature is focused on the benefits of digitalising transactions, as well as technological and organisational issues related to implementing inter-firm information systems. Even though firms choose different electronic solutions for different purposes, there are still modest research contributions focusing on what kind of governance structures that emerge from business to business (B2B) electronic commerce and why these different governance forms emerge. This paper develops a framework for analysing how certain transaction characteristics such as order frequency, relation specific assets and uncertainty affect the alignment of electronic governance form (EGF). The authors discuss the concept of EGF and categorise electronic governance structures into four different types. The basis for the discussion is transactions cost economics (TCE) combined with theoretical contributions from electronic commerce.

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  • Goril Hannas & Otto Andersen & Arnt Buvik, 2010. "Electronic commerce and governance forms: a transaction cost approach," International Journal of Procurement Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 3(4), pages 409-427.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijpman:v:3:y:2010:i:4:p:409-427
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