The effect of alliance network diversity on multinational enterprise performance
研究了联盟网络多样性对跨国企业经济绩效的影响，基于交易成本理论和网络理论提出竞争性假设，通过对580家大型跨国企业的结构方程模型分析，发现联盟网络越多样，企业平均经济绩效越低。
Abstract This paper examines the impact of alliance network diversity on multinational enterprise (MNE) economic performance. We consider competing hypotheses derived, alternatively, from transaction cost theory and network theory. Using a latent variable structural equation modeling approach on a sample of 580 large MNEs, we find that MNEs with more diverse alliance networks experience lower economic performance on average than those with less diverse alliance networks. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.