Control and Alliance Performance Risk in R&D Alliance-the Mediating Effect of Trust

摘要：

Based on a study of R&D alliance in Chinese automotive industry, alliance performance risk was found to be strongly influenced by alliance control as mediated by trust. The findings show that: (a) Communication of informal control has a significant indirect negative effect on performance risk in R&D alliance. Trust will fully mediate the relationship between communication of informal control and alliance performance risk, (b) Fair cooperation of informal control has a direct negative effect on performance risk in R&D alliance, (c) Dependency and sharing/mutual support of informal control doesnt have significant negative effect on performance risk in R&D alliance, (d) Formal contract control has a significant indirect negative effect on performance risk in R&D alliance. Trust will fully mediate the relationship between Formal contract control and alliance performance risk. (e) Performance risk in R&D alliance will be reduced significantly by formal dispute control, trust will partially mediate the r elationship between formal dispute control and alliance performance risk. Finally, we offer brief comments on managerial implications.

关键词： control trust alliance performance risk mediator

作者: HUANG Jun WANG Zhao WANG Le QIU Zhao

作者单位: School of Economics and Management Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China College of Information Science & Technology University of Hainan, Haikou, 570228, China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The 1st International Conference on Sustainable Construction & Risk Management(首届可持续建设与风险管理国际会议)

会议地点: 重庆

会议语种:英文

页码: 503-510

在线出版日期: 2010-06-12（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）