The authors examined the relations between adolescent-therapist and mother-therapist therapeutic alliances and dropout in multidimensional family therapy for adolescents who abuse drugs. The authors rated videotapes of family therapy sessions using observational methods to identify therapist-adolescent and therapist-mother alliances in the first 2 therapy sessions. Differences in adolescent and...

Companies can form alliances on the Internet to aggregate buying or selling power and create value. More concretely, together resources are shared or new possibilities are exploited that cannot be exploited individually. Most alliances are formed as a result of a negotiation process between the companies that form an alliance. This paper proposes a software framework that enables automated nego...

Introducing the unique characteristics of the international marine transport industry, this paper examines whether load capacity is excessive or insufficient in the presence of uncertainty on the future economic situation in terms of both welfare of one country and global welfare. We also consider the effect of alliances and the application of antitrust immunity on capacity building of shipping...

Rarity has important implications with respect to information technology (IT) resources, enabling firms to develop competitive advantage. We study the effect of firms’ possession of rare technology (IT) resources in the formation of alliances and its effect on firm performance. Using text-mining techniques, we measure the rarity of the 488 technology keywords present in a text corpus from 81,26...

Abstract This paper considers the issues of managing relationships in the business to business environment of the healthcare supply chain. It incorporates the dimensions of relationships between purchasers and providers which may lead to optimum user satisfaction. This theme is developed to consider how an understanding of strategic alliances might be utilised to facilitate partnership approach...

We investigate the role of networks of alliances in preventing (multilateral) interstate wars. We first show that, in the absence of international trade, no network of alliances is peaceful and stable. We then show that international trade induces peaceful and stable networks: Trade increases the density of alliances so that countries are less vulnerable to attack and also reduces countries' in...

This article explores sources of failure in strategic alliances drawing on field research into one of the most prominent alliance collapses in recent years. The alliance of Volvo and Renault married the two largest enterprises in their respective countries for economic objectives that virtually all industry experts applauded. Three years after its founding, the allies split apart in a bruising ...

Project alliances have become an attractive option for delivering large, complex infrastructure construction projects in Australia. The development of relationships in cost competitive project alliances is central to performance and achievement of project objectives. Critical success factors in relationship development of alliance projects that improve performance were investigated. Conclusions...

Although the literature on organizational alliances and networks focuses primarily on private sector organizations, public sector organizations have long confronted pressures to manage their environments through the formation of alliances. Moreover, several organizational theorists have posited that private and public sector alliances are becoming more prevalent, particularly in the realm of re...

Pooling resources, knowledge and technologies is a necessity in the health sector. Many hospitals do so through alliances with compatible establishments, which have been studied from the organizational perspective for many years. However, many alliances are reported to fail and the conditions which could foster their success are still not well known. The aim of this exploratory study was to ide...