Efficiency motives and normative forces: Combining transactions costs and institutional logic
综合交易成本经济学与制度理论，提出一个结合两者的组织理论模型，探讨在交易成本分析的模糊程度和组织时间生存导向两个情境因素下，哪种理论更能解释决策行为。
This paper provides a synthesis of transaction cost economics and institutional theory. It reviews each of these approaches and provides suggestions on how these perspectives might be broadened via this synthesis. It presents an illustrative model of organization theorizing that combines relevant aspects of transaction cost theory and institutional theory in order to strengthen the explanatory power of both. The model explores conditions under which one or both theories may be most appropriate in explaining decision behavior, focusing on two important situational factors--the degree of ambiguity surrounding transaction cost analyses and the organization’s temporal survival orientation.