本研究旨在透過文獻引用關係，探討國際企業研究中交易成本理論的發展歷程與演變趨勢，並且進一步檢視影響文獻在知識引用網路中重要性的因素有哪些。
研究方法上，第一部分是利用主路徑分析方法，根據文獻之間的引用關係進行分析，找出最有意義的知識傳遞路徑，即描繪出交易成本理論對國際企業研究的重要始點、影響軌跡及未來趨勢。透過交易成本理論與國際企業研究等2組相關關鍵字群交集檢索於Web of Science資料庫，獲取相關學術文獻1,066篇，另外手動補上5本書籍，共得文獻1,071篇，刪去沒有連結的文獻後，得文獻1,038篇，並以此為樣本文獻用主路徑分析方法進行分析。第二部分則是利用線性迴歸分析，對樣本文獻中，文獻的屬性與文獻重要性之間的因果關係進行檢測。
研究結果發現，根據主路徑分析法，呈現出由23篇文獻依時間與引用關係大小，描繪而成本研究範疇內最重要的知識傳佈軌跡。其中依國家別來分9篇來自美國，6篇來自英國，依期刊來看12篇出自商業類知名期刊Journal of International Business Studies，推測文獻的國家因素與期刊因素對文獻在知識傳遞上的重要性具有影響力。而從迴歸分析的結果來看，國家(英)、期刊出處(頂尖商業期刊)、時間等五個因素皆對文獻重要性具有影響，特別是知名期刊的推薦與早期理論發展奠定的基礎所形成的影響力最為顯著。
期望在實務上，能提供跨國企業經營者在策略發展時，一個清晰的回顧與前瞻之思考脈絡；而在學術上，能為未來相關的研究提供一個科學與創新的文獻分析方法。

Transaction cost theory/ economics (TCE) has been one of the most important economics and management theory for interpreting the formation and development of enterprises, even for describing multinational enterprises’ behaviors when processing internationalization. This study aims to depict how the theory evolves and make influence in international business studies (IB) studies by discussing how past papers applied the TCE in academic studies. The study also explore the critical factors that explain the importance of papers in knowledge networks of TCE applications in IB field.
The first part applies main path analysis to explore the main development of TCE applications in IB field. After searching the articles with related keywords from the database “Web of Science” and adding five books manually, we collect 1038 published paper in our dataset. Through analyzing, there are 23 papers on the main path. 15 of those papers are from UK and US, and 12 of them from a top business journal (JIBS). This implies the national factor and journal source may influence the importance of their roles in the knowledge network.
The second part tries to explain how papers play their importance in the field. We apply regression models to examine the roles of different characteristics in each paper (WOS citation, country, journal, published year and article type) on paper’s importance. The result shows the five factors (e.g. national factor, UK, theoretical-type paper, etc) are significantly influence the importance of papers in this field. The top business journals and early-published papers also make impacts significantly.

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