An Organizational Assessment of Interfirm Coordination Modes
识别企业间非市场协调机制，构建评估框架比较不同协调组合的效果与效率，提出更精细的企业间组织形式分类，并利用实证研究验证其解释力。
Inter-firm relationships are coordinated to a large extent by non-market mecha nisms. The objective of this paper is to identify which of these mechanisms are the most relevant, and how they can be theoretically and empirically combined into discrete alternative modes of organizational coordination between firms. A frame work is developed for evaluating the comparative effectiveness and efficiency of these combinations of coordination mechanisms in the regulation of different types of inter-firm interdependence, drawing on both organization theory and organiza tion economics. By analyzing network forms as mixes of coordination mechanisms, the framework offers a typology of inter-firm organization forms that is much more fine-grained and conducive to network organization design than those previously available. The predictive power of the framework is demonstrated by using the vast empirical research available on various types of networks, showing its capacity to explain the main findings on the use of different network forms for governing dif ferent types of relations.