Manu Militari: The Institutional Contingencies of Stakeholder Relationships on Entrepreneurial Performance

The authors thank senior editor Ruth Aguilera and the anonymous reviewers for their guidance, as well as Marya Besharov, Chi-Nien Chung, Adam Cobb, Glen Dowell, Lorraine Eden, Martin Gargiulo, Mauro Guillén, Daniel P. Hagedorn, Witold Henisz, Robert Hoskisson, Duane Ireland, Olga Khessina, Brandon Lee, Ben Lewis, Christopher Marquis, Noel Maurer, Aldo Musacchio, David G. Neeleman, Sangchan Park, Jordan Siegel, Michael Toffel, Pamela Tolbert, Paul Vaaler, Danqing Wang, and Tyler Wry for their helpful comments. They also thank seminar participants at Brigham Young University, Cornell University, Harvard Business School, INSEAD, Melbourne Business School, the National University of Singapore, Santa Clara University, the University of California at Riverside, the University of Hong Kong, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania. The authors express gratitude to Wayne Johnson and Sandy Yili Zhao for their research assistance. Finally, they are extremely indebted to the late Ronald E. G. Davies, the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History and curator of air transport at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, for giving them access to his data collection of world airlines, thereby making this study possible. A previous version of this paper received the 2013 Best Paper Award from the Leadership for Peace and Prosperity Conference.