“…The majority of the investigated literature concerned collaborative forms of strategy, such as mergers and acquisitions (Jemison and Sitkin, 1986;Walsh and Fahey, 1986;Dierickx and Koza, 1991), joint ventures (Brouthers and Bamossy, 1997;Lee, Chen, and Kao, 1998;Luo, 1999;Yan and Gray, 2001;Luo and Shenkar, 2002), or strategic alliances and outsourcing (Lippman and Rumelt, 2003). Taken together, these papers acknowledge the fact that specific strategic moves take place through high-level negotiations (Ring and van de Ven, 1994).…”