... and Lumineau, 2015 ; Roehrich et al., 2020). Governance, in this sense, is concerned with aligning expectations, managing opportunism, and facilitating cooperation rather than relying solely on legal enforcement. Relational governance is particularly salient in environments characterized...

... contracts and relational governance) – curb supplier opportunism of different forms in emerging markets. Design/methodology/approach We collect dyadic data from 868 managers working for 217 suppliers in China and matched buyers located in 66 countries to test the hypotheses. Interaction effects...

...Kenyth Alves de Freitas; Barbara Bechler Flynn; Ely Laureano Paiva; Amrou Awaysheh Purpose This paper investigates how companies become resilient to supply chain (SC) piracy through using transactional and relational governance mechanisms to develop strategies effective in environments...

... effects between the two governance mechanisms vary. Collectively, the results provide nuanced insights into the design of supply chain governance portfolios in the digital era. Blockchain Relational governance Trust Technology uncertainty Following Deng et al. (2021...

... and incentive schemes functional in terms of information requirements. Information equivocality is best addressed by using relational governance. Identifying information requirements and reducing information uncertainty are a prerequisite for the transformation activities that organisations perform to reduce...

... of physical–digital interface technologies, and their enhanced features of virtualisation and traceability, further enhance the impact of relational governance on the efficiency improvements of suppliers. Practical implications SC actors need to recognise the importance of long-term collaboration...

...Hua Liu; Shaobo Wei Purpose Drawing on the transactional cost economics (TCE) perspective, we aim to investigate the effects of the balance and imbalance between contractual and relational governance on a firm's bridging responses to supply chain disruptions. By adopting the institutionally...

...Qiyuan Zhang; Jason Lu Jin; Defeng Yang Purpose Given the pivotal influence of institutional forces, an important yet underexplored question in supply chain management literature is how contractual and relational governance jointly affect supplier performance under weak legislative environments...