Within the securities trading industry recent technological innovations enable Institutional Investors to self-directed trading and thus lead to a reassessment of their intermediation relationships. This may yield to an in-sourcing of trading activities by buy-side organization. Scientific...

Technological innovations currently alter the traditional value chain in securities trading. Investment companies that used to buy trading services from their brokers are now enabled by technology to emulate core competencies of their brokers themselves. To investigate the adoption decision...