Drawing on social capital theory and the international entrepreneurship literature, we
develop hypotheses relating the structural, cognitive and relational aspects of the …

While strategic alliances have emerged in recent years as common and important structural
vehicles for business development, surprisingly little is known about how collaborative …

Trust is typically portrayed as beneficial to all concerned; something which is inherently
good. In this article we focus on interpersonal trust and argue that, while there are …

The authors report the findings of a study conducted among a sample of 202 Hong Kong–
based Chinese importing companies regarding their working relationships with Western …

This study examines personal ties between boundary-spanning personnel in
interorganizational exchanges in emerging markets. Drawing on social embeddedness …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of strategic collaboration (SC)
on sustainable supply chain management (SSCM), considering the mediating role of …

While the importance of communication between companies within the supply chain has
been well established in the literature, a number of gaps remain pertaining to how individual …

Are innovation and creativity helped or hindered by our intellectual property laws? In the two
hundred plus years since the Constitution enshrined protections for those who create and …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to understand how personal relationships influence
behavior within a supply-chain context. Design/methodology/approach–This research …

We extend real options research by introducing the concept of collective real options and
model how collective real options provide strategic alliances a mechanism to manage social …