Knowledge Transaction Costs Study The Morphology Of The Virtual Enterprise

Virtual enterprise is a new type of enterprise organization form on the knowledge economy. It is different from traditional enterprise in characters, organization structure and combination way. Many unknowns on the concept still exist, therefore a comparatively complete theoretical framework is needed. But up to now, virtual enterprise theory is not mature. On the base of predecessor research achievements, the intension and extension are elaborated on, and then, an analysis framework about knowledge transaction cost and enterprise organization is set up. On the base of the theoretical framework, the form, the boundary and the structure are explained, and then the analysis of the organization operation and the development of virtual enterprises in China is done on the view of knowledge transaction cost.There are five parts in this paper. Chapter One: Introduction of virtual enterprise organization form; Chapter Two: The analytic framework of knowledge transaction cost and virtual enterprise organization; Chapter Three: knowledge transaction cost and virtual enterprise organization form; Chapter four: knowledge transaction cost and virtual enterprise organization operation; Chapter five: knowledge transaction cost and virtual enterprise development in China.