This paper investigates strategy and control's key effects on relationship performance in German automotive supplier firms, specifically taking the relational aspects into account. In buyer-supplier relationships the more powerful party could exploit the dependent party by means of opportunistic...

The development of low emission vehicles (LEVs) in the automotive sector stands out in the literature as a typical case of technological competition between a dominant design and a set of alternative green technologies. The incremental trajectory of green technologies aimed at improving the...