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Explaining and Predicting the Choice of Organizational Form: Integrating Performance Ambiguity and Asset Specificity Effects

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Mahoney, Joseph T. (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
McNally, Regina C. (Michigan State U)
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Organization theory suggests that various forms of performance ambiguity have governance implications for the strategic choice of control mechanism in organizational forms (e.g., Eisenhardt, 1985; Ouchi, 1979). Transaction costs theory emphasizes asset specificity as an important predictor of organizational form (e.g., Williamson, 1996). The current paper provides a new synthesis of performance ambiguity and asset specificity to better explain and predict the conditions under which various control mechanisms are more cost efficient.

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Paper provided by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Business in its series Working Papers with number 04-0109.

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