Dear Colleagues,

Departing on barriers faced by firms in their international entrepreneurship strategies, the establishment of collaborative networks has proven to be a facilitating mechanism of these processes, having in recent years overcome the focus on the supply chain (buyer-seller relations), to integrate multigroup alliances based on competitive relationships. Although these inter-organizational relations allow the development of new synergic capacities, they also introduce problems of coordination and opportunism, which become more critical in situations of power asymmetry between partners, very common in the international sphere. Facing this challenge, there is a business need and an academic interest in designing governance mechanisms that facilitate the alignment of objectives among partners and allow the creation of shared value throughout the network.

This Special Issue on “Advances in International Management Research” aims to bring together the most outstanding research and comprehensive coverage of all aspects related to the role of contractual and relational management mechanisms with respect to the creation of value by firms in international networks. Topics include, but not limited to:

• the effect of management mechanisms to generate a favorable relational atmosphere (trust and commitment), which allows dependence between international partners and their associated risks to be properly managed;
• the facilitating role of management mechanisms to establish dynamics that control the exploitation of power by the international dominant partner and allow the generation of joint dynamic capacities;
• the impact of the risk management and control of the development of international business-to-business relationships in industries with extensive networks.

Prof. Dr. Juan Manuel Ramon-Jeronimo
Prof. Dr. Raquel Flórez López
Guest Editors

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• International supply chain management
• International networks
• International risk management
• International barriers
• Control boundaries