A Knowledge Accessing Theory of Strategic Alliances

A Resource-Based Theory of Strategic Alliances

The resource-based view of the firm has not been systematically applied to strategic alliances. By examining the role of firm resources in strategic alliances, we attempt, in this paper, to put forward a general resource-based theory of strategic alliances, synthesizing the various findings in the literature on alliances from a resource-based view. The proposed theory covers four major aspects ...

Strategic Alliances and Interfirm Knowledge Transfer

This paper examines interfirm knowledge transfers within strategic alliances. Using a new measure of changes in alliance partners' technological capabilities, based on the citation patterns of their patent portfolios. we analyze changes in the extent to which partner firms' technological resources 'overlap' as a result of alliance participation. This measure allows us to test hypothesesfrom the...

Knowledge-related asymmetries in strategic alliances

Leveraging knowledge management across strategic alliances

Alliance building has several stages, and the manager who leverages his organization's knowledge through each stage creates the foundation for a successful partnership. Introduction With an annual growth rate of 25 per cent and a projected value of US$40 trillion by the year 2004, there is little doubt that alliances will have a major impact on management in the 21st century. The " make versus ...

Knowledge Management in Strategic Alliances: A Review of Empirical Evidence

Knowledge-related and organizational learning processes in alliances have received much attention throughout the last 25 years. The field has generated a rapidly growing body of empirical evidence on how knowledge is managed in alliances. However, the sphere is highly complex, fragmented, incoherent, and heterogeneous in terms of the theoretical approaches applied. This paper presents an integr...