Interdependencies between Supply Contracts and Transaction Costs

Supply contracts facilitate relationships between partners within supply chains and networks. While contracts allow to make terms of relationships explicit they also allow a closer look at transaction costs related to information and communication as well as coordination issues for designing and managing supply chains and networks. In this paper we provide a classification scheme for supply contracts and consider interdependencies with transaction cost economics. Insights are provided by means of exemplifying selected avenues of research that have been undertaken or might be useful to he undertaken.

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