能力、交易费用与企业边界的变动

Capabilities,Transaction Costs,and the Change of Firm Boundaries

运用交易费用理论与能力理论相融合的观点,对企业边界的变动问题进行探讨;从问题的原点——企业如何对一项活动进行组织来逐步考察企业边界的决策,发现能力和交易费用在企业的边界选择和变动中共同发挥着重要作用。同时,企业边界的变动是一个连续的过程,从静态和动态两个方面考察能力、交易费用与企业边界三者之间的关系,结果表明,不同时期能力和交易费用对企业边界的影响的重要程度不同,由此所导致的企业边界变动情况也存在着显著的差异。

This paper discusses the problem of the change of firm boundaries based on the integration of transaction costs economics and capability theories.We consider the decision of firm boundaries from the origin—a firm how to organize an activity,and find that transaction costs and capabilities indeed have an important function in the choice and change of firm boundaries.But the change of firm boundaries is a dynamic process,we add the time factor which is seen as ＂short term＂ and ＂long term＂ into analyzing the relation of capabilities,transaction costs,and firm boundaries.The result shows that there are distinct differences of the status of capabilities and transaction costs,and the change conditions of the firm boundaries are different too between the two period.