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The Roles Of Size And Size Difference In Australian And Chinese Inter-Firm Collaborations, Yu (Aimee) Zhang, Zhiming Cheng, Charles Harvie

Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal

There has been considerable debate on the contribution and significance of firm size to the establishment, operation and success of business collaboration. One important source of this debate arises from differing definitions of firm size used in previous research. This paper uses firm size categories and size differences between collaborating firms to examine their contribution to the formation and performance of inter-firm collaboration in Australia and China. Both qualitative case study and quantitative data analyses are adopted in this paper. Results from both the qualitative case study and quantitative study in Australia and China show that size plays a significant …