企业资源配置效率差异与企业边界变动

科斯指出企业和市场是两种不同的配置资源的制度安排,企业内的组织成本和企业间的交易成本决定了企业的边界。不同的企业,其资源配置效率存在着差异,这就决定了企业边界变动的动态性与复杂性。在临界点之前,企业资源配置效率与企业边界变动之间存在着互补性;突破临界点之后,企业边界变动会降低企业资源配置效率。以企业资源配置效率差异为切入点,可以将中间性组织的形成、企业纵向一体化以及企业垂直解体等纳入到一个统一的分析框架。

Difference of Firm Resource Allocation Efficiency and Change of Firm Boundary

Coase pointed out that firm and market were two different kinds of institutional arrangement on resource allocation,and the firm boundary was decided by organization costs inside the firm and transaction costs between the firms.There exists difference on resource allocation efficiency among different firms,which decides the dynamics and complexity of firm boundary change. Before the critical point,there exists mutual complementarities between firm resource allocation efficiency and firm boundary change;breaking through the critical point,firm boundary change can lower firm resource allocation efficiency. Based on the perspective of difference of firm resource allocation efficiency,the formation of inter-firm organization,vertical integration and vertical disintegration and so on can be included into a unified analysis framework.