Garicano, Luis and Kaplan, Steven (2001) The effects of business-to-business e-commerce on transactions costs. Journal of Industrial Economics, 49 (4). pp. 463-487. ISSN 0022-1821
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This paper studies transaction costs changes arising from the introduction of the Internet in transactions between firms. We divide transaction costs into coordination costs and motivation costs. We classify coordination efficiencies into three categories: process improvements, marketplace benefits, and indirect improvements. For motivation costs, we focus on informational asymmetries. We apply this framework to internal data from an Internet-based firm to measure process improvements, marketplace benefits, and motivation costs. Our results suggest potentially large process improvements and marketplace benefits. We find little evidence that informational asymmetries are more important in the electronic marketplace than in the existing physical ones.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0022-1821 |
| Additional Information: | © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc |
| Divisions: | Management Centre for Economic Performance |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Nov 2009 11:06 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Mar 2024 22:15 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/25580 |
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