Abstract
Our paper contributes to the emerging research on event-based explanations of alliance instability by conceptually linking theories of organizational stigma, status, and corporate governance to explain unplanned alliance dissolution. Our empirical study of alliance dissolutions by publicly traded US firms operating in the passenger air transportation industry in 1985-2016 confirms our prediction that (a) stigmatizing events affect alliance instability indirectly; (b) the extent of a firm’s external corporate governance exacerbates positive effect of high stigma events on media vilification of a firm but attenuates negative effect of media vilification on the probability of unplanned alliance dissolution; (c) firm status has a penalizing effect when high stigma events occur. However, contrary to our predictions, firm status loses its buffering power when media vilification intensifies.
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