“…Although prior empirical research has extensively documented the effective roles of governance mechanisms, it remains in limited context of opportunism mitigation (e.g., Liu et al, 2009;Luo et al, 2015), relationship performance (e.g., Yang et al, 2016;Liu et al, 2017a) and conflict management (e.g., Yang et al, 2017;Lee et al, 2017;Lumineau & Henderson, 2012). A growing number of empirical studies demonstrate that economic structure of relationship exchange is sociologically embedded (e.g., Granovetter, 2005;Dyer & Chu, 2011).…”