... that provide essential products and services to BoP markets and supplemented with text analysis of 31 reports on inclusive businesses to provide insights into supply chain uncertainties and potential solutions to mitigate these uncertainties. Findings Drawing on resource dependence theory, this research...

...Adriana Rossiter Hofer; Yao Henry Jin; A. Michael Knemeyer Purpose This study follows the tenets of the resource dependence theory (RDT) to investigate the effects of four dimensions of industry-level environmental uncertainty – munificence, dynamism, complexity and innovative intensity...

... management Resource dependence theory Case study Gulf cooperation council Middle east Extending early works conducted by social exchange theorists (e.g. Emerson (1962) and Cook and Emerson (1978)), RDT proposes that organisations engage in exchanges with their environment to obtain resources...