The paper addresses the phenomenon of the opportunism that arises from a parent (principal) toward an IJV (agent) and its antecedents. This study integrates Agency Theory and Resource Dependence Theory (RDT) to discover its determinants from the perspectives of principal opportunism. Using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) techniques and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) based on a sample of 185 Chinese-foreign IJVs in China, which are useful to reals the overall story of the principal opportunism. This study finds an IJV depends on parents’ support in both knowledge- and property-based resources has more chances to subject to principal opportunism. The result also indicates that psychic distance has a negative impact on principal opportunism. fsQCA, however, provides further solutions that the specific combinations of these predictors or their negation predicts principle opportunism.

The manuscript examines Guanxi’s direct influence on reducing opportunism and conflicts, and its indirect influence on increasing buyers’ satisfaction, relationship performance and long-term orientation. The findings based on data collected from 273 Chinese firms reveal that Chinese buyers’ guanxi with US suppliers could significantly reduce buyers’ perception in suppliers’ opportunistic behaviour and the perceived levels of conflicts in Sino-US relationships, hence increasing their satisfaction, relationship performance and long-term orientation. The results broaden existing understanding of guanxi literature by empirically examining Guanxi’s influence on supplier opportunism and conflicts. The research implications suggest guanxi could be employed as a management mechanism in reducing supplier opportunism and conflicts, hence positively increasing satisfaction, performance and long-term orientation.

To clarify the nature of the effect of collaborative communication on marketing performance, this study draws on the opportunism theory in order to develop a conceptual framework for investigating how a marketer’s opportunism moderates the relationship between collaborative communication and marketing performance. Empirical findings indicate that a marketer’s opportunism negatively moderates the relationship between collaborative communication and customer cooperation performance, whereas it positively moderates the relationship between collaborative communication and financial performance.

특유적인 자산을 매개로 한 기업간 교환관계에서 필연적으로 나타나게 되는 기회주의의 문제는 기업간 교환관계의 성과를 저해하는 핵심적인 요인이다. 본 연구는 특유적인 자산을 매개로 한 국제기업간 교환관계의 특성을 나타내는 국제합작투자기업에서 자산특유성에 따른 소유권의 기회주의 억제효과가 자산특유성의 유형에 따라 상이하게 나타날수 있음을 보이고자 한다. 이는 자산특유성의 한 유형으로서 물적자산특유성과 인적자산 특유성이 각기 상이한 특징을 가지고 있기 때문이다. 연구결과 자산의 특유성과 소유권의 관계에서 물적자산특유성이 클 경우에는 소유권의 지배가 더욱 선호되고 있으나, 인적자산특유성의 경우에는 유의적인 결과를 나타내지 못하였고, 자산특유성의 유형에 따른 소유권의 기회주의 억제효과를 보기 위한 매개회귀분석에서도 물적자산특유성의 경우에는 소유권의 기회주의 억제효과가 뚜렷하게 나타나고 있으나, 인적자산특유성의 경우에는 소유권의 매개효과가 나타나지 않는 것으로 드러났다.

Purpose – The main feature of this study is understanding of the vendor’s opportunism on the collaboration context between buyer and vendor from the buyer’s viewpoint with resource dependence theory. A number of studies on opportunism have focused on opportunistic definitions and its theoretical studies. Other researches emphasize the importance of governance in ways that reduce opportunism. We think that this research could be filled with the lack of previous studies. Research design, data, and methodology – In order to accomplish research purpose, four hypotheses have been established based on the framework of resource dependence theory and previous studies. And we have used 599 survey data jointly collected by Korea Productivity Center and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. To verify these hypothesis, we have conducted multiple regression analysis with SPSS 23.0. Results – The vendor 's opportunism decreases as mutual trust with buyer becomes higher. However, as the degree of dependence of buyers on vendor resources increases, vendor’s opportunism increases. And monitoring vendor's capacity has a moderating effect with buyer resource dependency to vendor's opportunism. Conclusions – This study suggest there are two options to decrease vendor's opportunism. Increasing mutual trust or decrease dependence on vendor's resources. Also, monitoring suppler's capacity could be effective when vendor's resource dependence is high.