在回顾和分析企业边界与规模以及跨国公司相关理论的基础上,运用交易成本概念从静态与动态两方面对跨国公司的边界与规模进行了探讨。从静态方面分析了跨国公司的内部交易成本和外部交易成本,讨论了跨国公司边界与规模的确定;从动态方面分析了静态交易成本理论的局限性,结合企业能力理论探讨了跨国公司边界与规模的动态性。
Based on an analysis of the theory of transnational corporation and firm's boundary and scale, this paper discusses the boundary and scale of transnational corporation with transaction cost. On the static level it analyzes the intemal and external transaction cost of transnational corporation, and the static boundary and scale of transnational corporation; on the dynamic level it criticizes the static theory of transaction cost, discusses the dynamic boundary and scale of transnational corporation with ability theory of firm.