Going global: how smaller enterprises benefit from strategic alliances

Interfirm Diversity, Organizational Learning, and Longevity in Global Strategic Alliances

Organizational theorists have correctly argued that the emergence and maintenance of robust cooperation between global strategic alliance partners is related to the diversity in the partners' characteristics. Yet previous research has failed to systematically delineate the important dimensions of interfirm diversity and integrate the dimensions into a unified framework of analysis. This paper d...

Strategic Alliances; A Comparative Analysis of Successful Alliances in Large and Medium Scale Enterprises around the World

In the fast growing competition of constantly developing markets and changing consumer preferences, some manufacturing companies are more successful than others to achieve its goals profitably. As competition is becoming more severe and alternatives are being introduced rapidly, firms struggle for the right of market share and to gain competitive advantage over their rivals to brighten their fu...

Behavioral Factors in Strategic Alliances

Strategic Alliances & Models of Collaboration

Purpose of this paper The purpose of this paper is to engage in a comprehensive review of the research on strategic alliances in the last decade. Design/methodology/approach After presenting a typology of diverse alliance governance forms, we review recent analyses of alliance formation, implementation management, and performance outcomes of collaborative activities. Findings Strategic alliance...

Learning in strategic technology alliances

In this paper we examine the influence of strategic technology alliances on organisational learning. From an empirical perspective we examine the preand post-alliance knowledge bases of allying firms. We find that the pre-alliance knowledge base overlap of the allying firms has an inverted U-shaped relationship with the degree of learning taking place in the alliance. Alliances established for ...