Handbook of Management Scales/Formal control

Formal control (alpha = 0.780/0.786)

Description

The authors consider two forms of control, namely formal control and social control.

Items

• Detailed contract is the most important way to guarantee cooperation success.
• The contract is useful to regulate the behavior of partner.
• In the process of cooperation, we use financial and market indices to evaluate cooperation success.
• Detailed cooperative rules have been written in the contract.
• Both partners know the cooperative procedures.

Source

• Li et al. (2008): Transformational offshore outsourcing: Empirical evidence from alliances in China. Journal of Operations Management, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 257-274.

Related Scales

• Social control