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| Tekijä: | Nickerson, J. A. Silverman, B. S. |
| Otsikko: | Why Aren't All Truck Drivers Owner-Operators? Asset Ownership and the Employment Relation in Interstate for-Hire Trucking |
| Lehti: | Journal of Economics & Management Strategy
2003 : SPRING, VOL. 12:1, p. 91-118 |
| Asiasana: | EMPLOYEES SHIPPING INDUSTRY ANALYTICAL REVIEW ASSETS |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | Transaction-cost and agency theorists have frequently cited trucks as prototypical user-owned assets, and have consequently predicted a predominance of self-employed drivers who contract with motor carriers. In fact, owner- operators accounted for less than one-third of US trucking activity conducted by large interstate trucking firms in 1991, a proportion that has changed little since deregulation. The authors answer why self-employment is in the interstate trucking industry not the dominant organization form. The authors propose that transaction costs and agency costs are indeed important in the trucking industry. In the absence of externalities across hauls, contracting between carriers and owner-operators is preferred for traditional agency reasons. |
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