کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5107214 1481776 2017 19 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Relational contracting and the myth of trust: Control in a co-opetitive setting
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
قرارداد ارتباطی و افسانه اعتماد: کنترل در محیط رقابتی
کلمات کلیدی
روابط بین سازمانی، همکاری قرارداد رسمی، قرارداد ارتباطی، کنترل اجتماعی، اعتماد، علاقه شخصی روشنفکر،
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی مدیریت، کسب و کار و حسابداری حسابداری
چکیده انگلیسی
In this paper, we investigate the role of formal and relational contracts in managing alliance risks that arise in co-opetitive collaborations. We undertake a case study of a co-opetitive sales alliance within the independent publishing sector, incorporating data from all firms to the alliance. We provide empirical evidence of the relational risks of misappropriation and opportunism as manifest in both vertical (buyer-supplier) and horizontal activities within the alliance and identify a further relational risk relating to concerns of introducing homogeneity into the product offerings of firms. We also examine the nature of compliance and regulatory risk, which is salient in this setting given the potential for anti-competitive behaviour towards customers and suppliers. We find that the firms mitigate alliance risks primarily through the use of relational contracts (informal self-enforcing agreements). Formal contracts are evident in the buyer-supplier relationship, but are used mainly for ex post co-ordination. We adopt an organisational economics perspective to explain the specific mechanisms that support relational contracting between the firms. We find that shared values, implicit understandings, restricted membership, meetings, and collective sanctions encourage the firms to demonstrate commitment to the alliance, to diffuse information about partners' behaviours, and, crucially, to monitor partners. Informal agreements between partners are sustained by self-regulating behaviours, reinforced by the 'shadow of the future' in that firms have a great deal to gain from continued participation in the alliance and face losses if excluded. Notably, our findings support economic arguments that trust is a weak proxy for observable control mechanisms. Our study contributes to knowledge of the management of inter-firm risks in two significant ways. First, we draw on our empirical findings to develop an organising framework that presents a means of systematically investigating the mechanisms and factors that support the use of relational contracts. Second, by employing an economics approach to the management of alliance risks, we are able to present a richer and potentially more compelling view of inter-firm control than is traditionally presented in studies that rely on intra-firm notions of social controls, in particular trust.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Management Accounting Research - Volume 36, September 2017, Pages 24-42
نویسندگان
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