The Organisational Governance of Dependent Forms of Self-Employment

Ulrike Muehlberger
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Ulrike Muehlberger: Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
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Chapter 5 in Dependent Self-Employment, 2007, pp 80-106 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Research on dependent forms of outsourcing has to focus on both formal organisational structures and, even more importantly, on informal organisational structures. Analysing only formal structures and relations would not reveal the actual organisation of dependent long-term business relationships. We argue that business relationships based on dependent forms of outsourcing rely on relational contracts that are additionally strengthened by the dependent element of such business relationships. In this context, dependency basically means that the subcontractor (i.e. the upstream party) is restricted in his or her alternative actions by both formal and informal agreements.

Keywords: Governance Structure; Vertical Integration; Business Relationship; Spot Market; Transaction Cost Economic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230288782_5

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