Scholars across management fields have paid increasing attention to the dark side of
interorganizational relationships. We first summarize the concept of the “dark side” and its …

Although the concepts of relational and contractual governance in inter-organizational
relationships have attracted academic and practitioner interest over the last decades, to date …

The recent emergence of blockchains may be considered a critical turning point in
organizing collaborations. We outline the historical background and the fundamental …

Transaction cost theory (TCT) has been fruitfully applied to a wide range of organizational
phenomena, as reflected in a vast and evolving body of research. However, in part due to …

Despite the growing research on the performance implications of technological and
organizational innovation, our understanding of how they impact SMEs' international …

Increasingly, the apparel industry generates enormous waste and pollution causing extreme
water scarcity in emerging economies, where circular economy (CE) adoption can help to …

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 …

Despite the increasing awareness of business and academic research toward creative
thinking, the investigation of its uptake by industry is still limited. Supplier engagement …

Do political connections buffer firms from or bind firms to the government? To examine this
theoretical puzzle, we distinguish two types of managerial political connections, ascribed …

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 …