RDT provides a systematic explanation of interorganizational relations, and provides a useful foundation for understanding and enhancing resource exchange in the environment. Based upon power exchange, RDT suggests that organizations have can sustain access to their resources through strategic choices such as cooperation, joint ventures, partnerships, etc. Active choice behavior should be recognized by organizations to manage a fl uctuating environment. However, RDT faces four limitations. First, the analyses are done at the industry level rather than the organizational level; the results are therefore