...Ismaheel Adewumi Raji; M. Muzamil Naqshbandi; Md. Zahidul Islam Purpose This study aims to examine how the relationship between managerial ties (i.e. business ties, political ties and university/research institution ties) and firm performance is mediated by external resource acquisition...

... theory and the institutional theory, this paper aims to explain how a firm’s business ties and political ties affect contractual governance in an interfirm cooperation, and under which institutional conditions they can play a better role. This study tests conceptual model using questionnaire...

... Licensed re-use rights only Drawing on the literature on dynamic skills, this study builds upon and empirically tests a conceptual model that connects business and political ties, organizational unlearning, organizational learning and firm performance. Specifically, this study suggests...

... equation modeling and mediation analyses were used on a sample of 344 small- and medium-sized enterprises in Istanbul. Findings Business ties are positively related to exploratory innovation behavior and political ties hamper such behavior. The authors also show that government support hinders firms...

...Zebin Yan; Jiangyong Lu The findings suggest that buyers with strong political ties are more likely to engage in the market-based selection of suppliers; this positive relationship is diminished when social control is preferred over contractual control in the buyer’s supplier governance...