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

Joseph T. Mahoney and Regina C. McNally
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Joseph T. Mahoney: U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Regina C. McNally: Michigan State U

Working Papers from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Business

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2004
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