The Mediating Alliance

Collaborative Experience and Alliance Performance: the Mediating Role of Market Orientation

Alliances are increasingly becoming common in all business relationships. In particular, alliances that facilitate the sharing of information between alliance partners as a result of collaborative experience is increasing in importance. Market orientation is a construct that can mediate the relationship between a firm’s collaborative experience and their alliance performance. This paper examine...

Alliance Formation, Alliance Expansion, and the Core

This article presents a simple cooperative game theory representation of alliance formation and expansion to counter a conventional threat along the allies’ borders. Mutual defense gains, derived from allying, arise from interior borders that no longer require protection. Spatial and locational attributes of the allies are crucial when identifying the gains from mutual defense and the distribut...

Human Rights and the Tobacco Industry: An Unsuitable Alliance

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,...

ACI Alliance – The American Cochlear Implant Alliance Foundation

Cochlear implants enable children and adults who are deaf to hear the ever present sounds of speech, music, and the environment in their daily lives. Without intervention, adults and children with severe-to-profound hearing loss suffer great consequences, such as delays in the development of spoken language, reduced academic performance, and reduced occupational success. The successful utilizat...