The legitimacy of strategic alliances: an institutional perspective

By M. Dacin, Christine Oliver, Jean-Paul Roy. 2007

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Studying Choice and Change: The Intersection of Institutional Theory and Entrepreneurship Research (2011, result): “In line with this, Dacin et al. (2007) suggest that strategic alliances serve an important legitimating function, beyond their more often-studied benefits for skills acquisition, risk sharing, and economies of scale, consistent with findings by Zott and Huy (2007).”
Resource-Based Advantages in an International Context† (2008, background): “…international experience-based dynamic learning capabilities increasingly choose joint venture entry modes over wholly owned modes because joint ventures offer such firms the ability to tap into location-specific resources and gain legitimacy in institutionally distant markets (Dacin et al., 2007).”
How Does Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility Matter in a Dysfunctional Institutional Environment? Evidence from China (2015, positive): “Legitimacy is vital to a firm’s survival because it ensures a continuous inflow of external resources and support from various stakeholders (Dacin et al. 2007).”
Unraveling the mechanisms of reputation and alliance formation: : A study of venture capital syndication in China (2014, positive): “Prior studies have highlighted the important role that organizational resources play in shaping firms’ decisions regarding whether or not to form an alliance.”
State Ownership and Firm Innovation in China: An Integrated View of Institutional and Efficiency Logics (2017, background): “According to the institutional view, institutional factors must be considered in determining the role of ownership in firm governance (North, 2005; Dacin, Oliver, and Roy, 2007; Peng, Wang, and Jiang, 2008).”
Myth-busting and entrepreneurship policy: the case of high growth firms (2017, background): “endorsements of a firm’s technology (Dacin et al. 2007), and act as a conduit into overseas markets by reducing the so-called ‘liability of foreignness’ in external markets (Johanson and Vahlne 2009).”
Signaling Theory: A Review and Assessment (2011, background): “For example, Dacin, Oliver, and Roy (2007) describe how firms expanding internationally may be subject to liabilities of foreignness, so they use strategic alliances to draw attention away from those liabilities by signaling organizational legitimacy.”
Overcoming the liability of newness: Entrepreneurial action and the emergence of China's private solar photovoltaic firms (2016, background): “Research from this perspective highlights the impact of formal and informal institutional features (Aldrich and Fiol, 1994; Suchman, 1995; Stuart et al, 1999; Zuckerman, 1999; Dacin et al, 2007).”