“…Prior studies have suggested that GM influences inter-organisational relationships and the overall performances of SC (Ballou et al, 2008;Zhang et al, 2012;Bellouma et al, 2009). According to Huang et al (2014) and Cai et al (2009), GMs in SCs, which draw insights from the logic of transaction cost economics (Huang et al 2014), could be seen in two basic forms: formal control and social control. Social GM, (also relational control) (Huang et al, 2014;Cai et al, 2009), broadly refers to trust-based approach to governance (Martinez & Jarillo, 1989;Dyer & Singh, 1998) adopted to govern buyer-supplier relationship by creating social environment (Luo, 2007) for shared decision making (Saxton, 1997).…”