期刊名称：International Journal of Business and Management
印刷版ISSN：1833-3850
电子版ISSN：1833-8119
出版年度：2011
卷号：6
期号：7
页码：51
DOI：10.5539/ijbm.v6n7p51
出版社：Canadian Center of Science and Education
摘要：How does a parent company organizational dimension affect its joint ventures’ performance in a transitional economy? We explored that question through an analytical inductive case study. Our findings indicate that the confluence of a function-oriented matrix form and lack of formal procedures at the strategic level led to a fief-like organization in which its functional departments hold high power and low accountability while its JVs’ management team hold low power but high accountability. Such a fief-like organizational parent makes a negative contribution to its JV performance by adding difficulty to its JV formal control, introducing department-driven opportunism through imposing inside hierarchical goals upon its JV, leading to a low opportunism control efficacy as the result of the separation of opportunism beneficiary from the costs. The negative contribution from the fief-like organization is due to its organizational injustice and a reverse arrangement between authority power and accountability.
