Strategic Flexibility in Information Technology Alliances: The Influence of Transaction Cost Economics and Social Exchange Theory
| العنوان: | Strategic Flexibility in Information Technology Alliances: The Influence of Transaction Cost Economics and Social Exchange Theory |
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| المؤلفون: | Candace Young-Ybarra, Margarethe F. Wiersema |
| المصدر: | Organization Science. 10:439-459 |
| بيانات النشر: | Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 1999. |
| سنة النشر: | 1999 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Transaction cost, Flexibility (engineering), Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, business.industry, Strategy and Management, media_common.quotation_subject, Information technology, Sample (statistics), Creating shared value, Microeconomics, Alliance, Social exchange theory, Management of Technology and Innovation, Economics, Quality (business), business, Industrial organization, media_common |
| الوصف: | Utilizing a model drawn from both transaction cost economics and social exchange theory, we analyze determinants of strategic flexibility in a sample of strategic alliances involved in joint development agreements or joint research pacts. Findings indicate that, in general, determinants suggested by transaction cost economics provided flexibility in modification and inflexibility in exit. From social exchange theory, trust was found to be positively related to both types of flexibility while another component of social exchange theory, dependence, was found to be negatively related to the strategic flexibility of the alliance. Results also found that factors suggested by both transaction cost economic theory and social exchange theory were related to the concept of trust. Economic constraints as suggested by transaction cost economics were positively related to trust between the alliance partners while dependence was negatively related to trust. Additionally, the quality of communication and the existence of shared values were positively related to trust between the exchange partners. Results provide support for the role of determinants from both transaction cost economics and social exchange theory in the flexibility of strategic alliances. |
| تدمد: | 1526-5455 1047-7039 |
| DOI: | 10.1287/orsc.10.4.439 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::49a4182684e100f6208937e9819d201f https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.10.4.439 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........49a4182684e100f6208937e9819d201f |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 15265455 10477039 |
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| DOI: | 10.1287/orsc.10.4.439 |