Resource Dependence Theory: A Review

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Outward foreign direct investment by emerging market firms: A resource dependence logic (2014, background): “a new generation of research on multiple forms of dependence (Hillman et al., 2009).”
Does Sustainable Supplier Cooperation Affect Performance (2012, background): “( 2009 ), firms are open systems that depend on the external environment but work to reduce their environmental uncertainty and dependence on suppliers.”
Human Capital and CEO Compensation during Institutional Transitions (2015, neutral): “As a leading theoretical perspective advocated by Pfeffer and Salancik (1978), resource dependence theory posits that firms engage in strategic actions to enhance their control of the resources needed for survival and prosperity (Drees and Heugens, 2013; Hillman et al., 2009; Wry et al., 2013).”
Cross-border mergers and acquisitions by emerging market firms: A comparative investigation (2015, background): “By offering an externally focused perspective for understanding organizational environmental relations and resource enhancing effects (Pfeffer, 1987), RDT seems well positioned to enhance the market and resource discourse, thus becoming one of the most widely applied theoretical lenses to explain wh”