Interorganizational Trust and Technology Complexity: Evidence for New Technology-Based Firms
研究了新技术企业中技术复杂性如何降低对关键合作伙伴的信任水平，并发现关系与伙伴特征会调节这一影响，对理解技术合作中的信任机制有参考价值。
Integrating the transaction cost economics and relational perspectives, this paper puts forward that technology complexity within new technology-based firms negatively influences the level of interorganizational trust in key partner relationships. Using a data set of 105 key partner relationships of 59 new technology-based firms, we find that the new technology-based firm's level of trust in its key partners is lower when the level of technology complexity is high. Findings further show that both relationship and partner characteristics moderate the technology complexity—trust relationship. These results show that technology complexity as an appropriability mechanism becomes endogenous to collaboration, thereby extending the Teece framework.