“…Secondly, the focus tends to be on collaboration and integration as the prime sources of value, disregarding the potential of non-collaborative, transactional type relationships to contribute to value creation as well. The majority of studies in this area focus on how or when collaboration can bring benefits to the enrolled firms (Castro, Bronzo, Resende, & Oliveira, 2015;Ramanathan & Gunasekaran, 2014). A complementary approach, as in Molina-Morales and Martínez-Fernández (2009) and Villena, Revilla, and Choi (2011), involves exploring whether collaborative relationships can present an inverted U-shaped generation of benefits, that is, where the performance and the generation of innovations decrease in scenarios with high levels of social capital (trust, friendship, intensity of contacts, etc.).…”