Role conflict and ambiguity of CEOs in international joint ventures: A transaction cost perspective.
基于交易成本经济学，研究了中国国际合资企业CEO的角色冲突与模糊性，发现合同完整性、母公司目标差距和正式化程度等因素的影响，并探讨了文化距离的作用。
Insights from transaction cost economics were used to study the boundary conditions underlying the role conflict and ambiguity of 265 CEOs in Chinese-based international joint ventures. Role conflict and ambiguity were lower when the contract between parents was more complete. Contract completeness fully mediated the effects of parent objective gap and parent formalization on role ambiguity but only partially so in the case of role conflict. Role conflict was lower when the foreign parent was dominant in the venture but higher when the local parent was dominant. Role conflict and ambiguity were inversely related to cultural distance. Neither construct had a detrimental effect on international joint venture performance. Implications for role theory are discussed.