Presents an empirical analysis of the contractualdesign of entrepreneurial alliances or collaborative agreements entered into byentrepreneurial firms. First, a series of arguments based on transaction costtheory is used to generate a number of hypotheses regarding the determinants ofthe...

In the article "De-Diversification Activities of German Corporations from 1988 to 2002: Perspectives from Agency and Management Fashion Theory", published in sbr in January 2006, Nicolai and Thomas offer some interesting hypotheses and empirical analyses on the occurrence of de-diversifications...

Research on the organization of inter-firm relationships has recently moved away from the discussion of equity- vs. non-equity-based forms of governance, turning now towards the examination of contractual design. However, empirical research on the contractual complexity of inter-firm...

We examine the relationship between the nature of assets involved in an alliance and the optimal configuration of contractual and relational governance mechanisms. Examination of governance choice and performance in the German telecommunications industry indicates that physical assets are more...