Organizational capital, production factor resources, and relative firm size in strategic equity alliances

Herman Belgraver () and Ernst Verwaal ()
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Herman Belgraver: KU Leuven
Ernst Verwaal: KU Leuven

Small Business Economics, 2018, vol. 50, issue 4, No 10, 825-849

Abstract: Abstract Access to complementary resources through strategic equity alliance networks is an important activity for both smaller and larger firms. In the literature, there is an intensive debate on the impact of alliance resources for smaller firms. We submit that the effect of alliance resources on the smaller firm financial performance depends on the attributes of these resources. Specifically, we argue that the attributes of partner organizational capital are negatively related and the attributes of partner production factor resources are positively related to the smaller firm financial performance. We test our theoretical framework by applying a longitudinal analysis to a dataset of 1730 firm-year observations of strategic equity alliances in the software industry in 25 countries over an 11-year period. We find support for our hypotheses, highlighting the critical importance of resource attributes for smaller firms in strategic equity alliance networks.

Keywords: Relative firm size; Alliances resources; Contingent resource-based view; Production factor resources; Organizational capital; Firm financial performance; L1; L2; L86; M1; M2; O33; D23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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