Mutual dependence, partner substitutability, and repeated partnership: the survival of cross‐border alliances
基于资源依赖视角，研究环境依赖与伙伴依赖如何独立及共同影响跨境联盟的生存，发现母国与东道国贸易相互依赖正向促进联盟生存，而伙伴可替代性降低生存概率，重复合作则提高生存概率。
Abstract Drawing on the resource dependence perspective, this study suggests that alliance survival is an adaptive response to both environmental dependence and partner dependence independently and jointly. Based on a sample of cross‐border alliances formed and terminated by local and foreign firms in a longitudinal setting, the results suggest that the mutual trade dependence between a home country and a host country is positively related to the survival of cross‐border alliances in the host country. Whereas partner substitutability reduces the probability of alliance survival, repeated partnership increases the probability. Moreover, mutual trade dependence reduces the negative effect of partner substitutability on alliance survival. The findings support the idea that resource dependence theory provides an important framework for the study of cross‐border alliances. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.