“…In the final third of the twentieth century, it became apparent that one of the most distinctive features of emerging economies is the existence of 'institutional voids' (Khanna and Palepu, 1999;Luo and Chung, 2013;North, 1990), referred to as the lack of or weak institutional facilities and regulations which support the well-functioning of an economy (Luo and Tung, 2007; see also Martin, Rieple, Chang, Boniface and Ahmed, 2015). In the subsequent years, a plethora of scholarly works has emerged on supply chain partnerships in emerging economies which articulates the ramifications of such voids and their ability to instigate partners' opportunism (Liu, Luo, and Liu, 2009).…”