Purpose–This study's purpose is to improve the understanding of inter‐organizational trust
outcomes in supply chain relationships. It focuses on synthesizing the empirical research …

The article offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between trust and control by
conceptualizing the two concepts as a trust/control duality instead of a dualism. This entails …

Strategic alliances have been recognized as arenas with potential for opportunistic behavior
by partners. Hence, a firm needs to have an adequate level of confidence in its partner's …

Trust and control are inextricably interlinked with risk in strategic alliances. Hence, to
understand how partner firms can effectively reduce and manage this risk, we need to …

This paper proposes and tests a model of IJV learning and performance that segments
absorptive capacity into the three components originally proposed by Cohen and Levinthal …

The instabilities of strategic alliances have been examined in the literature through a
number of theoretical approaches. Alliance instabilities refer to major changes or …

Trust is an important factor for managing transaction costs within interorganizational
relationships (IORs). Research on trust indicates that separate dimensions of trust arise from …

This article examines the evolution of trust, control, and learning in a joint venture
relationship. Using a coevolutionary approach, we develop a framework that shows how …

The acknowledgement that trust is important for the functioning of organizations has
increased the demand for research showing how this importance is reflected on the …

In studying the antecedents of alliance performance, one stream of research has
underscored the alignment between partners' characteristics whereas another has …