A Study on the Relationship between Governance Structure Type Selection and Performance of Medical Alliances Based on Transaction Cost Theory
Lin Jinhui
Yao Fang
Wang Dong
Abstract：Objective It screens the main factors influencing the choice of the governance structure of the medical alliances,and discusses the matching relationship between the type of governance structure and the performance of the medical alliances,which provides a reference for further promoting the medical alliances.Methods The text coding analysis of interview data from hospital administrators of 54 medical institutions was analyzed using the rooting theory,and 150 medical alliances were selected for questionnaire surveys using convenience sampling to analyze the performance of the medical alliances and the relationship with the choice of the type of governance structure using descriptive statistics,nonparametric tests,factor analysis,and multivariate linear regression.Results The results show that the following factors affect the selection of the governance structure of medical alliances:asset specificity,transaction frequency and uncertainty;regardless of the type of governance structure of the medical alliances,asset specificity and uncertainty both significantly and positively influence the performance of medical alliances.Under the governance structure of the property-type alliance,transaction frequency has no statistically significant effect on the performance of the medical alliances.Conclusion Enhancing the positive impact of asset exclusivity and uncertainty on the performance of medical alliances.
Keywords：transaction cost theorymedical alliancestypes of governance structuresperformance
Publication Date：2024-11-05
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 25-29 )