Friendships with competitors can improve the performance of organizations through the
mechanisms of enhanced collaboration, mitigated competition, and better information …

In light of the increasing importance of strategic alliances in shaping competition, this study
explored whether the social network of small firm executives can be leveraged to facilitate …

Business friendships are increasingly common. Research in organizational behavior has
identified a number of benefits to career and organizational performance of these …

This study of chain affiliation in the Manhattan hotel industry examines the benefits and
drawbacks of affiliation with a chain, which can be a source of operating knowledge and …

Although the importance of interorganizational relationships in the tourism industry has been
recognized, it is unclear how cooperation influences firms' performance. We argue that …

Although combining friendship and business in the same relationship can be beneficial, it
can also create conflict. A source of this conflict is incompatible relational expectations. True …

This article develops a cultural agreement approach to organizational culture that
emphasizes how clusters of individuals reinforce potentially idiosyncratic understandings of …

Theory and research note the ubiquity of multiplex workplace friendships—multifaceted
relationships that superimpose friendship with work‐focused interactions—but it is unclear …

In this article I seek to apply findings from recent research on rivalry relationships to firm-
level competitive strategy. I integrate microlevel and macrolevel theory in arguing that …

Purpose–The paper provides insights into destination marketing and the conditions and
outcome of competitor co‐operation in a local, horizontal hotel network. The specific …