Make versus buy in trucking: asset ownership, job design and information
In: NBER working paper series 8727
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In: NBER working paper series 8727
In: Journal of political economy, Band 100, Heft 3, S. 598-614
ISSN: 1537-534X
In: Journal of political economy, Band 100, Heft 3, S. 598
ISSN: 0022-3808
In: The journal of economic history, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 154-156
ISSN: 1471-6372
In: Journal of political economy, Band 48, Heft 6, S. 930-931
ISSN: 1537-534X
In: Journal of political economy, Band 48, Heft 5, S. 751-753
ISSN: 1537-534X
In: Journal of labor economics: JOLE, Band 22, Heft 4, S. 767-798
ISSN: 1537-5307
In: American economic review, Band 93, Heft 3, S. 551-572
ISSN: 1944-7981
Explaining patterns of asset ownership is a central goal of both organizational economics and industrial organization. We develop a model of asset ownership in trucking, which we test by examining how the adoption of different classes of on-board computers (OBCs) between 1987 and 1997 influenced whether shippers use their own trucks for hauls or contract with for-hire carriers. We find that OBCs' incentive-improving features pushed hauls toward private carriage, but their resource-allocation-improving features pushed them toward for-hire carriage. We conclude that ownership patterns in trucking reflect the importance of both incomplete contracts and of job design and measurement issues.
In: American economic review, Band 91, Heft 2, S. 189-194
ISSN: 1944-7981
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