Quantifying Transaction Costs Reduction of Digital Business Ecosystems

The results of the study establish that integration into a digital business ecosystem: simplifies the search for information about a potential partner; reduces the impact of the bounded rationality factor in evaluating a transaction, in the allocation of rights and obligations of counterparties; reduces the risk of shortage of raw materials and supplies; reduces the impact of the uncertainty factor, which contributes to the frequency of transactions; enables the use of smart contracts; reduces the risks of opportunistic behavior of counterparties; eliminates the human factor and reduces the risk of fraud.