Strategic Alliances in Knowledge-Intensive Industries: An Integrated View

An integrated model for learning organization with strategic view: Benchmarking in the knowledge-intensive industry

Facing such a fast-changing environment, an organization should be more market-driven and learningoriented. It is believed that a learning organization (LO) is apt to develop and maintain its own competitiveness rather than that without learning ability. Even though many studies have been addressing the importance of LO and the plausible relationship with competitiveness, the incoming impacts o...

Knowledge-related asymmetries in strategic alliances

Prior Alliances with Targets and Acquisition Performance in Knowledge-Intensive Industries

An important focus of the research on mergers and acquisitions is the conditions under which acquisitions create value for the acquiring firm’s shareholders. Given that the acquisition process is plagued by serious issues of information asymmetry, which are exacerbated in the context of knowledge acquisitions, we examine whether prior alliances with potential targets reduce the information asym...

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...

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 ...