ALLIANCE ACTIVITY AS A DYNAMIC CAPABILITY: SEARCH AND INTERNALIZATION OF EXTERNAL TECHNOLOGY.

Alliance Activity as a Dynamic Capability in the Face of a Discontinuous Technological Change

Alliance capability as mediator between experience and alliance performance : an empirical investigation into the alliance capability development process

This study centers around the way in which firms can enhance alliance performance through the development of an alliance capability. Whereas most research has focused on inter-firm antecedents of alliance performance (i.e. factors influencing the quality of the relationship), research on intra-firm antecedents points to prior experience and internal mechanisms fostering knowledge transfer. As l...

Technology as Routine Capability

Technology is most commonly associated with material things, tools or artifacts. But technology is also theoretically associated with routines, patterns of action that provide capabilities. Schatzki’s practice theory allows for an overarching perspective that ties tools as devices to routines in a broader social context and offers insights into technological change, in particular, in the inform...

Alliance Capability & Success a Knowledge-based Approach

Firms can enjoy competitive advantage by developing a capability to manage alliances more successfully than others. A knowledge-based approach suggests that organizational processes facilitating the accumulation, codification and sharing of alliance know-how embedded in the firm’s alliance experience, are central to its alliance capability and success.

Alliance Capability, Stock Market Response, and Long-term Alliance Success: the Role of the Alliance Function

ALLIANCE CAPABILITY, STOCK MARKET RESPONSE, AND LONG-TERM ALLIANCE SUCCESS: THE ROLE OF THE ALLIANCE FUNCTION PRASHANT KALE,* JEFFREY H. DYER AND HARBIR SINGH 1 University of Michigan Business School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. 2 Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, U.S.A. 3 The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,...