Research Note: An Analysis of Specificity in Transaction Cost Economics
分析了资产交易特定性如何导致依赖和交易成本，指出依赖不一定对称，且无特定资产也可能存在依赖，探讨了不同特定性形式对依赖模式的影响。
The transaction specificity of assets yields dependence, and hence transaction costs in case of opportunism and bounded rationality. However, this dependence need not be symmetric between buyer and supplier, and there may be dependence without transaction specific assets. There are many forms of speci ficity, yielding different patterns of more or less symmetric dependence. These different forms of specificity are analyzed in terms of a formal, generalized rela tion of specificity. The implications for dependence are discussed.