Although extant literature has shown that formal contracts and relational governance play a
key role in interorganizational relationships, the nature of their interplay still remains …

The notion of 'ecosystems' provides an attractive metaphor to describe a range of value
creating interactions and relationships between sets of interconnected organizations. First …

Our research empirically assesses two distinct bases for trust: calculative trust, based on a
structure of rewards and penalties, versus relational trust, a judgment anchored in past …

In this article, we review the literature on interfirm contracting in an effort to synthesize
existing research and direct future scholarship. While transaction cost economics (TCE) is …

Buyer–supplier relationships involve dyadic interactions, but there is a dearth of empirical
dyadic analysis of these relationships. While relationships with a power balance between …

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

Since the publication of Williamson's Markets and Hierarchies, many empirical articles have
investigated the tenets of transaction cost theory. Using meta-analytic techniques, we …

Building on institutional and transaction cost economics, this article proposes that legal
enforceability increases the use of contract over relational reliability (eg, beliefs that the …

This paper looks at when and how preexisting interorganizational trust influences the choice
of governance and in turn the performance of exchange relationships. We theorize that …

This paper investigates the composition of creative teams of academic scientists engaged in
inventive activity. Our data provides a unique opportunity to explore the links between team …