Purpose – To review the alliance partner selection criteria research in order to shed light on how entrepreneurial firms should choose established firms as alliance partners. Design/methodology/approach – Critical differences between entrepreneurial and established firms are presented to...

The temporalities of opportunism – a term that generally means “self‐interest seeking with guile” – have not been adequately examined in the literature. This article suggests that opportunism is a variegated phenomenon that can be better appreciated by exploring the role of its...