Supply chain relations towards a car engine company: a study from a transaction cost perspective

• Autor(a) principal: Maia, Jonas Lucio
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Outros Autores: Cerra, Aline Lamon
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Economia (Curitiba. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufpr.br/economia/article/view/11552
• topic: supply chains; Transaction Cost Economics; automotive industry; cadeias de suprimentos; Economia de Custos de Transação; Indústria automobilística

This paper aims at shedding light to the “automaker–supplier”relationships taking place inside a supply chain belonging to the Brazilian automotiveindustry, based on the Transaction Cost Economics assumptions and variables.Transaction Cost Economics has proven to be an important theoretical basis forstudies on chains, being used to assess the quality and richness of the relationships;to consider the impacts of organizational choices in performing an activity inside thecompany, in the market or through hybrid forms; among others. The main resultsshow that (1) the engine manufacturers use a hybrid form of relationship withtheir suppliers, which alternates from cooperation to “latent competition”, (2) deverticalizationdirectly affects both transaction parties, and (3) the relation betweenasset specificity and opportunistic behavior is mediated by issues like transaction volume and maximization of return on previous investments.