关于通用-费舍案例的论争

通用-费舍案例是资产专用性解释中引证最多的经典案例,并被视为通过纵向一体化来治理资产专用性和机会主义行为的现实模型。但是,最近关于通用-费舍案例的重新调查发现,真实的通用-费舍案例完全不能作为支持资产专用性理论的证据,资产专用性理论也完全解释不了其引证最多的通用-费舍案例。从而很好地证明了资产专用性不是纵向一体化的主要动因。此外,对汽车产业分包契约的分析也说明了这一点。

Controversy about Fisher Body-General Motors Case

As the most extensively discussed example in the theory of the firm,the Fisher Body-General Motors Case has been viewed as the real model of governing asset specificity and the opportunist behavior by vertical integration.The newest surveys find that not only the real case can't support the prevailing view at all,but also the asset specificity view can't explain this case which has been cited most frequently.Thus,this case is a good proof that asset specificity is not an important reason for vertical integration.Besides,the analysis for subcontract in auto industry also illustrates this point.