Effective collaboration among supply chain actors can lead to improved market access, reduced logistics costs and improved customer service. In practice, however, widespread collaboration initiatives are challenging to implement, due to barriers such as the sharing of sensitive information,...

As innovation and technology management grow in complexity the need for inter-organizational cooperation increases. Part of this cooperation requires the understanding of how knowledge management and learning processes may function to support a successful research and development collaboration....

The literature on supply chain management (SCM) has consistently promoted the “bright side” of collaborative buyer-supplier relationships (BSRs). Based on the social capital argument, SCM scholars have investigated how a buyer can gain access to and leverage resources through its...

This study conducts an investigation of interorganizational trust and its positive and negative effects. We consider how positive and negative effects operate differently under two types of uncertainties — buyer dependence and market instability. Trust is studied in the buyer–supplier...