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Post‐Chandlerian Firms: Technological Change And Firm Boundaries

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  • Paul L. Robertson
  • Gianmario Verona

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While the Chandlerian firm has come to dominate large sectors of advanced economies, recent studies have shown that the properties of knowledge used by firms, the dynamic nature of transaction costs, and the impact of information and communication technologies on organisations might reduce firm scale and scope. We present a contingent model of firm boundaries that explains why, as a result of technological change, firms might simultaneously outsource some activities that they had formerly preferred to produce in‐house while increasing their vertical integration in other areas. We support our conclusions with evidence from different industries.

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  • Paul L. Robertson & Gianmario Verona, 2006. "Post‐Chandlerian Firms: Technological Change And Firm Boundaries," Australian Economic History Review, Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 46(1), pages 70-94, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ozechr:v:46:y:2006:i:1:p:70-94
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8446.2006.00152.x
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    1. Bucheli, Marcelo & Mahoney, Joseph T. & Vaaler, Paul M., 2007. "Chandler's Living History: The Visible Hand of Vertical Integration in 19th Century America Viewed under a 21st Century Transaction Costs Economics Lens," Working Papers 07-0111, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Business.
    2. Marcelo Bucheli & Joseph T. Mahoney & Paul M. Vaaler, 2010. "Chandler's Living History: "The Visible Hand" of Vertical Integration in Nineteenth Century America Viewed Under a Twenty-First Century Transaction Costs Economics Lens," Journal of Management Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 47(s1), pages 859-883, July.

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