Organizations and Markets

My First Bleg: Transaction Similarity

12 July 2006 at 2:17 pm Peter G. Klein 1 comment

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A “bleg,” for those who don’t know, is a blog post asking readers for help. (We’ve already written plogs, posted bloggerel, and suffered from blogathy and even blogstipation. No problems yet with blogorrhea.)

Anyway, here’s the bleg. Can readers provide some good references from the capabilities or RBV literatures on Coase’s concept of “transaction similarity,” the idea that firms are more likely to integrate transactions similar to transactions that have been integrated in the past, controlling for current levels of asset specificity, uncertainty, frequency, and so on?

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