Impact of Resource Complementarity and Status Similarity on Inter-firm Partnership Formation: Moderating Effect of Environmental Competitiveness

Author

Pei, Xudong

Author_Institution

Sch. of Econ. & Manage., Xi´´an Shiyou Univ., Xi´´an, China

fYear

2011

fDate

29-31 July 2011

Firstpage

95

Lastpage

97

Abstract

Based on resource-based theory and social network theory, the moderating effect of environmental competitiveness on the relationship among complementary resources, status similarity and partnership formation analyzed. The results show that although firms need to develop partnership based on complementary resources and similar status, this relationship may vary with the level of environmental competitiveness. Environmental competitiveness negatively moderates the relationship between resource complementarity, status similarity and partnership formation.

Keywords

organisational aspects; environmental competitiveness effect; interfirm partnership formation; resource complementarity; resource-based theory; social network theory; Buildings; Economics; Organizations; Social network services; Uncertainty; environmental competitiveness; partnership formation; resource complementarily; status similarity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Business Computing and Global Informatization (BCGIN), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0788-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4464-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BCGIn.2011.32

Filename

6003856