Alliance-building Process as Inhibiting Factor for SME International Alliances

Building Trust in International Alliances

Two facts stand out unambiguously in today’s global business. One, international alliances are prolif erating, underscoring the strategic importance managers increasingly attach to “competition through cooperation. ” Two, trust is key to successful international alliances. Together, these two facts point to the need to better understand trust, a task that was attempted in an earlier article (Pa...

Sme Competitiveness in Ghana Alliances for Action

A Socio-technical Approach for Transient SME Alliances

The paper discusses technical requirements to promote the adoption of alliance modes of operation by SMEs in the construction sector. These requirements have provided a basis for specifying a set of functionality to support the collaboration and cooperation needs of SMEs. While serviceoriented architectures and semantic web services provide the middleware technology to implement the identified ...

Pricing Mechanism Design for Centralized Pollutant Treatment with SME Alliances

In this paper, we assume that a professional pollutant treatment enterprise treats all of the pollutants emitted by multiple small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In order to determine the treatment price, SMEs can bargain with the pollutant treatment enterprise individually, or through forming alliances. We propose a bargaining game model of centralized pollutant treatment to study how th...

Governance structure choice in strategic alliances The roles of alliance objectives, alliance management experience, and international partners

Purpose – Strategic alliances have a variety of governance structures that can be broadly classified as joint ventures, minority equity alliances, and contractual alliances. This paper seeks to empirically examine the roles of four key determinants of governance structure choice, namely, joint R&D and joint marketing objectives, alliance management experience, and international partners. Design...