Make versus Buy in Trucking: Asset Ownership, Job Design, and Information

Explaining patterns of asset ownership is a central goal of both organizational economics and industrial organization. We develop a model of asset ownership in trucking, which we test by examining how the adoption of different classes of on-board computers (OBCs) between 1987 and 1997 influenced whe...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The American economic review 2003-06, Vol.93 (3), p.551-572
Hauptverfasser:	Baker, George P., Hubbard, Thomas N.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Assets Computers Customer services Delivery vehicles Economic models Economic research Economic theory Economics Firm theory Freight Incentives Information Information technology Instrumental variables estimation Job design Organizational change Ownership Ownership and control Private trucking Recording instruments Rent-seeking Resource allocation Road transport Studies Subcontracting Trailers Transport Transportation services Truck drivers Trucking Trucking industry Trucks Vehicle fleets
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