Safeguarding Investments in Asymmetric Interorganizational Relationships: Theory and Evidence

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Interorganizational Governance Value Creation: Coordinating for Information Visibility and Flexibility in Supply Chains (2007, background): “Transaction-cost economics (TCE) is a major theoretical perspective for analyzing interorganizational governance, including safeguarding specific investments (Jap & Anderson, 2003; Subramani & Venkatraman, 2003) and structuring purchasing relationships (Noordewier et al., 1990).”
The Roles of Competence Trust, Formal Contract, and Time Horizon in Interorganizational Learning (2009, background): “Dependence may render less powerful firms to be more vulnerable to the exercise of power by the more powerful partner (Subramani and Venkatraman 2003).”
The Negative Effects of Social Capital in Organizations: A Review and Extension (2017, neutral): “The strategy literature has noted that organizational networks are often characterized by power asymmetries (Subramani and Venkatraman 2003) and asymmetry in terms of capabilities will contribute to such power asymmetries.”
How Do Suppliers Benefit from Information Technology Use in Supply Chain Relationships? (2004, methodology): “Business-process specificity is the degree to which a supplier s key business processes such as operating processes, administrative processes, and quality-control processes are particular to the requirements of the focal firm5 in the relationship (Subramani and Venkatraman 2003).”