Word.ws English Dictionary

information impactedness

information impactedness noun: a characteristic of transactions in which the parties to a contract are inclined to operate opportunistically in the presence of uncertainty and complexity surrounding the contract.

Noun

information impactedness (uncountable)

  1. A characteristic of transactions in which the parties to a contract are inclined to operate opportunistically in the presence of uncertainty and complexity surrounding the contract.

Origin of information impactedness

Coined by Oliver E. Williamson, an American economist and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Questions about information impactedness

What does information impactedness mean?
Information impactedness means a characteristic of transactions in which the parties to a contract are inclined to operate opportunistically in the presence of uncertainty and complexity surrounding the contract.
What part of speech is information impactedness?
Information impactedness is a noun.

Words near information impactedness in the dictionary

  1. information hazard
  2. information hazards
  3. information hiding
  4. information highway
  5. information highways
  6. information impactedness
  7. information integrity
  8. information literacies
  9. information literacy
  10. information management
  11. information market

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: information impactedness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “information impactedness.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/information_impactedness. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.