Strategic alliances and interfirm knowledge transfer

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...

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...

Interfirm alliances in online retailing

Reports in the popular media attest to the fact that the commercial development of the Web has sparked greater interconnectedness and competition between firms. Under rapid technological and market change and opportunity, firms who have innovative ideas, technologies, and products form alliances to coordinate their resources and fully capitalize on them in a timely fashion. Drawing on interorga...

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 ...