Consistency Judgments, Embeddedness, and Relationship Outcomes in Interorganizational Networks

Alberto Sa Vinhas (), Jan B. Heide () and Sandy D. Jap ()
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Alberto Sa Vinhas: College of Business, Washington State University, Vancouver, Washington 98686
Jan B. Heide: School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706; Department of Marketing and Management, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia; and Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1AG, United Kingdom
Sandy D. Jap: Goizueta Business School, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322

Management Science, 2012, vol. 58, issue 5, 996-1011

Abstract: Past research has shown how outcomes in interorganizational relationships are influenced by the characteristics of the individual relationship in question. Focusing on relationships between suppliers and their organizational buyers, we augment this perspective by positing that relationship outcomes are also influenced by social comparison processes involving perceptions of a supplier's practices across comparable buyer relationships. Based on past research on embedded ties and institutional theory, we propose that the effect of these comparison processes depends on the nature of a buyer's existing interorganizational ties and on the norms that are brought to bear on the relationship in question. We test our propositions based on 788 observations of organizational buyers who have relationships with the same supplier. Our findings paint a complex, multilevel picture of the process by which relationship outcomes come about in interorganizational networks. This paper was accepted by Jesper SØrensen, organizations.

Keywords: organizational studies; design; effectiveness-performance; strategy; information (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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