Several empirical studies have shown that apparently competing companies cooperate extensively through an informal exchange of valuable information. Since international interfirm relations have become elementary in many markets, the informal information exchange across national borders gains...

Several empirical studies have shown that apparently competing companies cooperate extensively through an informal exchange of valuable information. So far, however, the question of whether information trading patterns are stable across cultures has remained widely unexplored. This research...

Several empirical studies have shown that apparently competing companies cooperate extensively through an informal exchange of valuable information. Since international inter-firm relations have become elementary in many markets, the informal information exchange across national borders gains...