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Employing the resource based and relations based theories of firm, this study examined the factors affecting the partnership between small & medium domestic manufacturers and overseas logistics firms. The study identifies two main channels of influence — namely firm specific resource (manufacturing capability, brand Awareness) and relational resources (role Clarity, reliability) — and tests the structural relations with competitive advantage and financial performance of the partnership. Using SmartPLS 2.0, the test reveals that the statistically significant positive factors on competitive advantage are reliability, brand recognition, and manufacturing capability. Further, consistent with many previous studies, this study confirms that for Korean small & medium manufacturers as well, competitive advantage of partnership has statistically positive significance on financial performance.