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ABSTRACT
This paper re-visits the characterizations of control typically found in the scholarly literature about control in international strategic alliances. Each of the three dimensions of control typically referred to in the literature is either extended (mechanisms and extent) or completely revised (focus). These suggested changes are then put to use to develop a general model that helps explain the relationship between different dimensions of control. Based on this more general model, an empirically testable model is presented to facilitate the study of control over international strategic alliance inputs, which has long been an under-researched topic. For the future, the characterization of control dimensions given here and the relationships proposed between control dimensions can be of help when developing contingency and fit-based models to explain ISA performance. A proposition and several empirically testable hypotheses are also set forth.