Relationship Governance in a Supply Chain Network

By Kenneth H. Wathne, Jan B. Heide. 2004

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Subfields: Management Information Systems, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Understanding the impact of relational capital and organizational learning on alliance outcomes (2010, background): “Relational capital has been identified as a resource that is created through social network processes (Dyer & Singh, 1998; Wathne & Heide, 2004).”
The governance of supply networks: a systematic literature review (2012, background): “Only a few empirical studies (Alvarez et al., 2010; Réviron and Chappuis, 2005; Wathne and Heide, 2004) have explored formal and informal governance instruments in conditions of uncertainty.”
Supply chain financing: using cash‐to‐cash variables to strengthen the supply chain (2009, unknown): “, 2004) and shared reward (Wathne and Heide, 2004; Lee, 2004).”
Make, Buy or Ally? Theoretical Perspectives on Knowledge Process Outsourcing Through Alliances (2010, unknown): “Firms can develop capabilities in interorganizational governance, supply chain management, and purchasing (Heide and Wathne, 2004), and in more effective knowledge process outsourcing.”
Antecedents and Outcomes of Exporter–Importer Relationship Quality: Synthesis, Meta-Analysis, and Directions for Further Research (2014, background): “…increasing recognition that a well-functioning interfirm business relationship is an important source of competitive advantage (Samiee and Walters 2003; Wathne and Heide 2004), and accordingly, managing relationships between exporters and importers is central to maintaining a lead over competitors.”
Trust at Different Organizational Levels (2008, background): “Firms form coentities for diverse reasons, such as to develop new products (Rindfleisch and Moorman 2001), strengthen supply chains (Wathne and Heide 2004), reduce operating costs (Cannon and Homburg 2001), reach new markets (Bamford, Ernst, and Fubini 2004), devise industry standards (e.g., the 3G…”
The performance implications of strategic fit of relational norm governance strategies in global supply chain relationships (2005, background): “Governance refers to the formal and informal rules of exchange between partners (Nickerson et al., 2001; Wathne and Heide, 2004).”
The effects of supplier capabilities on industrial customers’ loyalty: the role of dependence (2010, background): “Because the customer’s ability to respond to changes in its downstream market heavily relies on its supplier’s responsiveness ( Wathne and Heide 2004 ), and as product life cycles are becoming shorter (Slater and Narver 2000), the supplier’s operations capability is increasingly important.”
Inter‐organizational governance, learning and performance in supply chains (2010, background): “…relationships, sometimes from a theoretical pointof-view (e.g. Dyer and Singh, 1998; Heide, 1994; Mohr and Sengupta, 2002; Wathne and Heide, 2000) other times empirically (e.g. Cai et al., 2009; Chelariu and Sangtani, 2009; Hernández-Espallardo and Arcas-Lario, 2003; Wathne and Heide, 2004).”