... strategy and corporate spin-offs to investigate the conditions under which spin-off firms engage in political strategy. Drawing on insights from both domains and grounded in resource dependence theory, the authors propose that capital intensity and research and development (R&D) intensity increase...

... strategic alliances by examining the monitoring role of institutional investors and the resource provision role of the board of directors. Financial constraints Strategic alliances Agency theory Resource dependence theory Institutional ownership All firms strive to grow and create value...

...) are less effective monitors, but that this research hypothesis has received mixed empirical support. The resource dependence theory argues that directors can serve an alternative role within the corporate governance system by providing executives with human and relational capital. While a recent study...

... of directors Global strategy Resource dependence theory Corporate political activity The interplay of big business and politics has received significant scholarly attention in the past. Strategic management scholars, in particular, were primarily interested in exploring the various avenues in which...

..., patents, licenses, and start-ups). Design/methodology/approach The study borrowed the resource dependence theory perspective by focusing on the proportion of funding secured from various external sources that fund university R&D, and assessed its effect on the nature and outcomes of the university...

... Publishing Limited 2014 Competence Resource dependence theory Competitive environment External business relationship OEM supplier Most research in the field has focussed on general buyer-supplier relationships (Dyer, 1997 ; Dyer and Singh, 1998 ; Dyer and Chu, 2000), some in an OEM...