Sedatole, Vrettos, and Widener (SVW) contribute to the substantial existing literature that draws on transaction cost economics (TCE) theory to predict and understand the outsourcing relationship. This is a difficult task given the large amount of cross-disciplinary research attention that has been devoted to testing TCE theories about organizational form. Indeed, outsourcing as a form of "make or buy" decision can be considered the paradigm problem of this literature and has been a particularly strong focus of research attention (Shelanski and Klein [2008]). Despite the considerable body of research devoted to this topic, SVW are able to make a unique contribution by investigating the idea that management control mechanisms within the firm are determinants of the extent to which standard equilibrium TCE predictions regarding between-firm exchange relationships hold empirically.
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机译：Sedatole，Vrettos和Widener（SVW）为大量现有文献做出了贡献，这些文献利用交易成本经济学（TCE）理论来预测和理解外包关系。鉴于已经投入大量的跨学科研究注意力来测试有关组织形式的TCE理论，这是一项艰巨的任务。实际上，将外包作为“制造或购买”决策的一种形式可以视为该文献的范式问题，并且一直是研究关注的重点（Shelanski and Klein [2008]）。尽管针对该主题进行了大量研究，但SVW能够通过调查以下观点做出独特的贡献：企业内部的管理控制机制是企业间交易所关系的标准均衡TCE预测凭经验成立的程度的决定因素。
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