An introduction to the governance of inter-organizational relations within the context of transaction costs theory

الملخص EN

The theory of transaction costs referred to integration as a strategic option to ensure the expansion and sustainability of enterprises' coordination mechanism, but it did not expand in clarifying the role of this coordination mechanism in governance of relations between enterprises, Ronald Coase clarified the role of the enterprise as a coordinator between economic activities through the hierarchy of manager's authority, through its ability to coordinate between economic transactions with the lower cost than market coordination.

Our study aims to highlight the role of the institutional coordination mechanism in the governance relations between the three integrated enterprises: the enterprise, the supplying enterprise, and the distributed enterprise, the study concluded that there is an important role to replace the market coordination mechanism with an institutional coordination mechanism in the governance of relations between integrated enterprises.