Escalating geopolitical tensions between countries may lead to a country’s adoption of foreign economic policies that promote economic decoupling from the rival country. Our study examines which multinational enterprises (MNEs) tend to embrace their home government’s decoupling policies in...

We investigate whether labor unionization of customer firms affects the operating performance of their dependent suppliers. Using a sample of U.S. union elections, our regression discontinuity tests show that passing a union election leads to a 6.9 percentage-point decline in supplier operating...

We show that common institutional ownership (CIO) along the supply chain can mitigate hold-up problems faced by bilateral relationships resulting from incomplete contracts. Suppliers conduct more relationship-specific innovative activities when CIO networks are wider and deeper. We establish...