To date, no published study has measured the evolution of supply chain structure and relationships in response to changing product-market development requirements. This research draws upon production literature and exchange governance theory to simulate the interaction of supply and demand environment factors on the growth and development of supply chain relationships. Experiments were conducte...

Drawing on transaction cost economics and social exchange theory, we explore the impact of governance mechanisms green customer integration moderating effects power environmental uncertainty. Using data from 206 Chinese manufacturers, can show that both contractual control relational norms facilitate integration. Interestingly, promotional are undermined if manufacturers exert mediated power. F...

Von Maj Munch Andersen he recent rise of greening as a corporate issue forms a part of what some environmental researchers see as the emergence of a new green techno-economic paradigm (1). The greening process is seen as revolutionary in character, entailing a paradigm shift resulting in major cognitive and technological changes. This paradigm change is expected to have thorough structural effe...

Many studies have observed that close interfirm collaborations have positive effects on a firm’s innovation. Yet, they have not shown how the collaboration contributes to this process. Higher innovation rates could be a result of revolutionary improvements, evolutionary improvements, or both. We investigated changes in the innovation process. Longitudinal data from 23 top IT firms across 9 year...

In this paper we model the real cost structures of three customer–supplier relationships through a game theory approach. The three cases demonstrate the benefits of mutual interfirm trust in financially measurable terms. Indeed, interfirm trust can decrease the transaction costs of the relationship, thus providing competitive advantage for the partners. Moreover, we present a pricing arrangemen...

This paper examines interfirm knowledge transfers within strategic alliances. Using a new measure of changes in alliance partners' technological capabilities, based on the citation patterns of their patent portfolios. we analyze changes in the extent to which partner firms' technological resources 'overlap' as a result of alliance participation. This measure allows us to test hypothesesfrom the...

Over the past two decades, the formation of international and interfirm collaborations has increased substantially, especially for the high-tech firms. It is argued that collaborations provide a platform for organizational learning, giving partner firms access to each other’s knowledge. However, empirical validations on the relationships among governance mechanisms, interfirm learning and relat...

In the global economy, firms link with customers and suppliers through a complex nexus of strategically critical interfirm relationships. Due to the diversity of environments and networks involved, these linkages are increasingly vulnerable to catastrophic disruption, i.e., crisis. As such, the authors offer an advanced conceptualization of crisis and explicate the interplay of crisis and inter...

As contemporary firms increase their reliance on information technology (IT) and are increasingly turning their attention to jointly creating value with their primary stakeholders, there is a growing need to understand what enablers promote from interfirm value co-creation from co-production in supply chains, how the co-production can be realized and what value can be created through the co-pro...