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fundamental transformation

Oliver Williamson refers to this as fundamental transformation: before investing in relationship-specific assets, the buyer can buy from any number of competing sellers (a ‘large numbers’ bargaining situation); after the investment, buying from anyone else than the current seller incurs an additional cost known as the switching cost (a ‘small numbers’ bargaining situation).



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