... © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only However, we still lack a comprehensive understanding of the function of a key relational governance component, namely, boundary spanners. Many of the prior studies have focused on various relational...

...). Hierarchical moderated regression models are adopted to test the hypotheses and two-stage regression analyzes are used to correct for endogeneity. Findings This paper finds that relational governance has a greater impact on alliance performance than contract utilization at the top level. Furthermore...