Four theoretical perspectives currently dominate attempts to understand the drivers of
successful interorganizational relationship performance:(1) commitment–trust,(2) …

Research Summary: Market conditions are known to matter for firm performance and growth.
This study explores how changing levels of uncertainty and competition affect interfirm ties of …

Interpersonal competition is ubiquitous in organizations and is studied across a variety of
disciplines. However, these literatures have developed in parallel with little integration …

Purpose Balancing interfirm relationships is important for firms' long-term superior
performance. However, prior studies mainly focus on interfirm competition or interfirm …

Traditional analyses of industrial behavior typically link the exercise of market power in an
industry to internal features such as demand conditions, concentration, and barriers-to-entry …

Interfirm collaboration and exchange relationships are fundamental to how value is created,
managed, and exchanged between firms. In this paper we first identify three major research …

The structural embeddedness argument (Granovetter, 1985) suggests that action in an
economic relation is embedded in a network of other economic and social relations. In this …

This study advances extant literature in cross-functional knowledge sharing by developing
and testing a model of coopetition that examines (1) the relationships of various coordination …

Purpose–Further understanding of structural hierarchy is critically needed to assess the
usefulness of different alliance structures. This study goes beyond transaction cost …

Cooperative strategies, both domestic and foreign, have become an important component of
the strategic repertoire of firms. Various forms of interfirm alliances are redefining and …