Creating relational rents: The effect of business groups on affiliated firms' performance in Indonesia

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作者
Mursitama T.N. [1 ]
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[1] Gakushuin University, Graduate School of Management, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-8588
关键词
Business groups; Capabilities; Indonesian firms; Relational rents;
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10.1007/s10490-006-9014-3
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This research attempts to extend the discussion of business groups in emerging economies by treating business groups as a form of interorganizational network that generates relational rents among affiliated firms by creating technological and managerial capabilities. Based on the relational view, this research investigates whether value created by business groups depends upon sharing, combining, and exchanging unique and specific resources or assets among affiliated firms. Results show that technological capabilities contribute to create relational rents in terms of affiliated firms' investment in R&D and human capital. Managerial capabilities also contributed to generating relational rents through investment in managerial knowledge acquisition for affiliated firms without R&D units and in training for affiliated firms with R&D units. However, learning by exporting and learning from imported input do not yield relational rents within business groups. Overall, these findings reveal that business groups as interorganizational networks are contingent on their internal, unique, and specific capabilities, as social capital theory argues. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2006.
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页码:537 / 557
页数:20
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