To do or not to do?: Noncooperative behavior by commission anti omission in interfirm ventures

This article contributes to researchers' understanding of interfirm collaboration by examining the interpartner relationship in terms of cooperative behavior. In particular, this article focuses on the effect that a firm's perception of its partner's behavior has on the firm's own behavior. Noncooperative behavior is distinguished by omission and by commission. By analyzing questionnaire data from a sample of 81 companies, it is shown that a firm's perception of its partner's behavior has a stronger association with the firm's own behavior when the partner is perceived to behave noncooperatively by commission than by omission.