Opportunism in the R&D alliances of SMES: The roles of the institutional environment and SME size |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Marketing, Economics and Management School, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China;2. Department of Marketing, College of Business, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Hong Kong;1. University of Bozen-Bolzano, Piazza Università 1, 39100 Bozen-Bolzano, Italy;2. Imperial College Business School, South Kensington Campus, Exhibition Rd, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom |
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| Abstract: | SME leaders with R&D alliances face significant challenges in balancing the need for resource acquisition in the innovation process and the potential for opportunistic behavior by alliance partners. This study, utilizing a sample of 456 SMEs from eight countries, examines how the resource capacity of the SME and the institutional environment are related to the perceptions that owners and managers have about the opportunistic behavior of alliance partners. The results suggest that firm size moderates the relationship between the technological munificence and the predominant culture of the domestic market of the SME and concerns about the opportunistic behavior of an SME alliance partner. |
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