TY - JOUR
T1 - Opportunism and trust in cross- national lateral collaboration
T2 - the Renault-Nissan Alliance and a theory of equity-trust
AU - Mikami, Kentaro
AU - Ikegami, Jusuke “JJ”
AU - Bird, Allan
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to express our gratitude to the Nissan Global Foundation for their support of our research. We would also like to express our condolences to the family of the late Professor Masataka Ohta (Waseda University), who led this project early on and passed away in the middle of the research effort.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021
PY - 2022/4
Y1 - 2022/4
N2 - Post-merger integration governance and management mechanisms facilitating lateral collaboration remain opaque. In an analysis of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, we abduce a theory of equity-trust by drawing on microfoundations theory and four types of organizational justice. We identify five practices that motivate distributive, procedural, informational, and interactional justice, and find that these practices discourage opportunistic behavior and foster trust thereby influencing alliance performance in two ways: sum of the parts and learning and synergies. Our findings contribute to understanding cross-national lateral collaboration in the form of symbiotic post-merger integration in strategic alliances.
AB - Post-merger integration governance and management mechanisms facilitating lateral collaboration remain opaque. In an analysis of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, we abduce a theory of equity-trust by drawing on microfoundations theory and four types of organizational justice. We identify five practices that motivate distributive, procedural, informational, and interactional justice, and find that these practices discourage opportunistic behavior and foster trust thereby influencing alliance performance in two ways: sum of the parts and learning and synergies. Our findings contribute to understanding cross-national lateral collaboration in the form of symbiotic post-merger integration in strategic alliances.
KW - Alliance governance
KW - Alliance management capability
KW - Cross-border M&A
KW - Cross-border alliance
KW - Organizational justice
KW - Renault-Nissan Alliance
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jwb.2021.101286
DO - 10.1016/j.jwb.2021.101286
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85119935218
SN - 1090-9516
VL - 57
JO - Journal of World Business
JF - Journal of World Business
IS - 3
M1 - 101286
ER -