中间组织的产生:基于交易的不可分性

The Emergence of Inter-Organizations: Based on the Indivisibility of Transactions

作为介于市场和企业之间的一种治理结构,中间组织之所以能够广泛存在,必然有其优势。将"交易"作为分析对象,认为交易存在不可分性,正是由于交易不可分,企业或者市场在组织交易过程中是以离散的整数形式进行的,因此导致交易成本随着交易数量的变化也呈现出离散的形式,在企业和市场边界明确时,往往不能给企业带来最大的交易成本的节省,只能处于一种次优的位置。中间组织的出现很好地解决了这个问题,相当于把原本不可分的交易细分了,使得企业进一步节省了交易成本,接近或者达到最优选择的交易成本。

Inter-organizations,as a kind of governance structure between market and firms,are widely exist because of their advantages.The paper analyzes ＂transaction＂,and gives the point that transaction has indivisibility because it cannot be separated.The number of transactions that firms and markets can organize must be in terms of integers,so the transaction costs are discrete with the change of transaction volumes.When there is a clear boundary between firms and markets,it cannot save maximum transaction costs for firms,but in a suboptimal situation.However,the emergence of inter-organizations well solves the problem.Inter-organizations divide transactions that cannot be separated originally,and saves transaction costs for firms,which is close or have reached the optimal transaction costs.