Leveraging Complementary Resources through Relational Capital to Improve Alliance Performance under an Uncertain Environment: A Moderated Mediation Analysis

Integrating the resource-based theory, relational view, and contingency this research advances strategic alliance literature by providing a theoretical framework that explains outcomes from both inter-organizational external environmental perspectives. Specifically, we analyzed effect of complementary resources on performance through mechanism capital in an uncertain environment. We also explored moderating roles dynamism hostility indirect relationship between resource complementarity with moderated mediation model. Based empirical evidence survey 210 firms, found firm can access its motivate it to invest partnership, which turn improves performance. However, positive link is attenuated under highly dynamic More importantly, results analysis suggest mediating stronger when environment less dynamic, but not hostility. These findings imply are critical antecedents performance, yet firms could leverage value achieve success without sound mechanisms or ability adapt