Competence, specificity and outsourcing: impact on the complexity of the contract

This paper focuses on the link between the three types of specificity and the complexity of outsourcing contracts because specificity is generally considered as the most important transaction cost attribute. It also integrates external uncertainty in the model. External uncertainty is a multidimensional concept that reflects the lack of knowledge about events that may take place in the environmentoutsourcing; transaction cost economics; resource-based view; contracts; partial least squares

Innovation, new market and governance choices of entry : the internet brokerage market case

This paper investigates the case of market entry strategies following the introduction of a disruptive innovation. Recognizing that market entry strategies have been envisioned in the literature as a discrete phenomenon, we develop an empirical framework that portrays these strategies as a capability building process. These organizational modes are integrated into our model : acquisition, alliance, and market transaction. We compare the first two with the third one and we test our model in the setting of the online brokerage industry by using a sample of 897 moves made by 98 firms over a seven-year period (1994 to 2000). We built this dataset by collecting secondary data.By suggesting that the entry into a new industry is not a discrete phenomenon, our research should lead the path to additional research on this topic.innovation; market entry; capabilities; firm's boundaries

From Rent-Seeking Activities to Economic Activities: The Strategic Transformation of the Deregulated Firm

The political theory of regulation holds that deregulation of utilities obliges the former monopoly to abandon its rent-seeking activities to concentrate upon economic activities. However, the arguments presented by scholars to explain this strategic transformation are not entirely convincing. We argue in this paper that the role and the nature of the firm during the deregulation process have been underestimated in previous works. After describing the main steps of this process, we thus propose a dynamic explanation of the strategic transformation of the deregulated firm based on the concepts of firm capabilities, access to rents and transaction costs.rent-seeking; strategic renewal; capabilities

The political economy of international regulatory convergence in public utilities

To what extent should public utilities regulation be expected to converge across countries? When it occurs, will regulatory convergence lead to positive outcomes for utility sectors? This paper attempts to provide new answers to these questions. Building on the core proposition of the New Institutional Economics (NIE) that similar regulations generate different outcomes depending on their fit with the underlying domestic institutions, we develop a simple theoretical model and explore its implications by examining the diffusion of local loop unbundling (LLU) regulations in the telecommunications sector. We find support for the ideas (1) that once institutional factors are taken into account, one should expect some convergence in public utility regulation but with still a significant degree of local experimentation, and (2) this process will lead to very different results regarding the impact of regulation.Regulatory convergence, lobbying, utilities

Rapport sur les rapports

Quelin Bertrand. Rapport sur les rapports. In: Revue d'économie industrielle, vol. 60, 2e trimestre 1992. pp. 116-128

Chronique : L'actualité des rapports - Capitalisme et société de l'information à l'horizon 2000

Quelin Bertrand. Chronique : L'actualité des rapports - Capitalisme et société de l'information à l'horizon 2000. In: Revue d'économie industrielle, vol. 72, 2e trimestre 1995. pp. 99-110

Rapport sur les rapports

Quelin Bertrand. Rapport sur les rapports. In: Revue d'économie industrielle, vol. 64, 2e trimestre 1993. pp. 105-116

Rapport sur les rapports

Quelin Bertrand. Rapport sur les rapports. In: Revue d'économie industrielle, vol. 56, 2e trimestre 1991. pp. 124-133

Changement technique et diffusion des innovations

Quelin Bertrand. Changement technique et diffusion des innovations . In: Revue d'économie industrielle, vol. 32, 2e trimestre 1985. pp. 119-125