为了提升渠道价值和培育竞争优势,营销战略会针对特殊的渠道交易伙伴进行专用性投资。交易成本理论认为专用性投资在带来高的附加值的同时,也使得进行专用性投资的渠道成员面临投机行为风险。中国的实证数据表明,虽然销售商的专用性投资会导致制造商渠道投机行为,但这会受到制造商自身的专用性投资的影响以及渠道关系持续的影响,即双边“锁定”和渠道关系的持续会有效避免渠道投机行为。
Marketing strategy needs specificity investment for special channel partner in order to elevate value and cultivate competitive advantage. Transaction cost theory believes that make specificity investment will face opportunism risk when it enjoys high added value. This paper shows that manufacturer's specificity investment and on-going channel relationship will counteract channel opportunism behaviors, that is to say, bilateral lock-in and everlasting channel relationships will effectively prevent the channel partner's opportunism behavior.