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Manoela Silveira dos Santos
Doutora em Administração pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Professora da Universidade Estadual do oeste do Paraná (Unioeste)

Pery Francisco Assis Shikida
Doutor em Economia Aplicada pela Universidade de São Paulo. Professor da Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná (Unioeste)

Cristiano Stamm
Doutor em Planejamento Urbano pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Professor da Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná (Unioeste)

Innovation, economics of transaction costs and supply chain management: a theoretical discussion

The aim of this article is a theoretical discussion about innovation from the perspective of New Economic Institution – NEI and Supply Chain Management -SCM. By addressing those issues raises a major and current discussion about innovation role in supply chains and emphasizes some weakness in NEI theory. Thereby, the question that arises is: how innovation can be related to NEI and SCM major concepts? The article is build on the concept of innovation worked in the Evolutionary Approach, the approximation of the elements related to innovation in this theory with SCM and the fundamentals elements of NEI, allowed highlighting the important role of institutions, not only to SCM, but also for the Evolutionary Approach. Since the institutions contribute to the coordination of chain members’ actions, impacting directly on its structure and performance and affecting the chain ability, or firms ability, to generate innovations.

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