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A Family-Based Healthy Lifestyle Intervention: Crossover Effects on Substance Use and Sexual Risk Behaviors
Inverse association of marijuana use with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease among adults in the United States
Substance Use and Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy: What Is Known and What Is Unknown
Link of dietary patterns with metabolic syndrome: analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Regular Marijuana Use is Associated with Poor Viral Suppression in HIV-Infected Adolescents and Young Adults
Microstructural brain abnormalities in HIV+ individuals with or without chronic marijuana use
Gene variants and educational attainment in cannabis use: mediating role of DNA methylation
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The end of the opportunism vs trust debate: bounded reliability as a new envelope concept in research on MNE governance
Modern transaction cost economics (TCE) thinking has developed into a key intellectual foundation of international business (IB) research, but the Williamsonian version has faced substantial criticism for adopting the behavioral assumption of opportunism. In this paper we assess both the opportunism concept and existing alternatives such as trust within the context of IB research, especially work on multinational enterprise (MNE) governance. Case analyses of nine global MNEs illustrate an alternative to the opportunism assumption that captures more fully the mechanisms underlying failed commitments inside the MNE. As a substitute for the often-criticized assumption of opportunism, we propose the envelope concept of bounded reliability (BRel), an assumption that represents more accurately and more completely the reasons for failed commitments, without invalidating the other critical assumption in conventional TCE (and internalization theory) thinking, namely the widely accepted envelope concept of bounded rationality (BRat). Bounded reliability as an envelope concept includes two main components, within the context of global MNE management: opportunism as intentional deceit, and benevolent preference reversal. The implications for IB research of adopting the bounded reliability concept are far reaching, as this concept may increase the legitimacy of comparative institutional analysis in the social sciences