企業國際合作型式選擇決定因素之研究-成本交易理論與知識基礎理論之比較

This research attempts to compare
and contrast the similarities and
differences of transaction costs
economics and knowledge-based view
towards the determinants and underlying logics explaining the choice of
international collaboration modes.
Following the literature review and
critiques, this research is to develop a
conceptual framework as well as various
research hypotheses, and by using
Taiwanese firms having experiences in
international collaboration as sample, to
conduct an empirical research to test
those hypotheses and compare how the
explanatory power of transaction costs
economics and knowledge-based views
differ. It is evidenced that while
transaction costs theory possesses a
better explanatory power than
knowledge-based view, the integrated
model combining these two strands
explains the research question best,
showing a complementary rather than
substituting relationship between them.