Why Firms Make Unilateral Investments Specific to Other Firms: The Case of OEM Suppliers
This paper examines why and under what conditions firms will make unilateral relationship-specific investments to serve their transaction partners. We propose that firms are more likely to make unilateral relationship-specific investments when the investment yields economic spillover values for other transactions with the same exchange partners as well as for third-party transactions. We also model two types of positive inter-project spillover effects that a transaction may generate: knowledge spillovers and reputation spillovers. We find empirical support for our developed theory in the context of Taiwanese suppliers of Original Equipment Manufacturers.
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2007
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Authors: | Kang, Min-Ping ; Mahoney, Joseph T. ; Tan, Danchi |
Institutions: | College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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