We are never ever getting back together: Constraints on business relationship reactivation after bankruptcy-acquisition

• The paper develops a model of constraints on business relationship reactivation in the context bankruptcy-acquisition. Constraints can come from ending, dormant our expected future episodes. Unsettled debts, unilateral switching costs, and losses are identified as constraining elements for reactivation. purpose this is to create conceptual after Previous research has predominantly focused contexts where positive aspects forefront; accordingly, it argued that more needed A case study Swedish automotive industry used develop model. contributes studies by showing during different episodes (ending, episodes) possible identify constrain subsequent In empirical study, these unsettled costs losses.