The changing competitive dynamics in the online environment has resulted in an increased pressure for organizations to gain IT resources and capabilities much ahead of their rivals. This has resulted in a surge in strategic IT alliances and online partnerships among organizations engaged in E-commerce. Combining resource based view of firm and contingency perspectives, we offer a framework to u...

This study employs the framework of the resource-based theory (RBT), and investigates the process by which firms can realize the potential value of their alliance management capability. In this process, co-exploration and co-exploitation are regarded as the two main strategic actions needed to leverage alliance management capability. Analyses of multisource, time-lagged data on 172 Finnish manu...

The study of primitive patients, i.e. patients with borderline and narcissistic personality disorders, is utilized to examine the concepts of transference, the real relationship and therapeutic alliance in the treatment of all patients. Self-object transferences are present in the psychoanalytic treatment of primitive as well as neurotic patients. In neurotic patients they form the silent stabl...

Strategic alliance is an agreement between two or more organizations to cooperate in a specific business activity, so that each benefits from the strengths of the other, and gains competitive advantage. The formation of strategic alliances has been seen as a response to globalization and increasing uncertainty and complexity in the business environment. Strategic alliances involve the sharing o...

The practice of child marriage is an impact gender-based discrimination, which reduces the value women. Such discrimination might violate children’s rights under Convention on Rights Child. Traditional Sasak marriages, known as Merariq, are carried out by abduction prospective bride groom. This issue increases number marriages in West Lombok. phenomenon has been contributing to increasing Lombo...

Child mortality has decreased substantially globally-from 12.6 million in 1990 to 6.3 million in 2013-due, in large part to of governments' and organisations' work, to prevent pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria, the main causes of death in the postneonatal period. In 2012, the World Health Assembly adopted the Decade of Vaccines Global Vaccine Action Plan 2011-2020 as the current framework aimed ...

In this paper we analyse a modified version of the model for secure mobile multi-agent computation proposed by Endsuleit and Mie [8]. The modified version still maintains tmax := dn3 e 1 as upper limit of tolerable corrupted agents. The original publication is lacking a security analysis that takes into account real world factors. This paper provides such an analysis. We analyse tmax looking at...

The structure of the current study is based on to the prior studies on supply chain management practices and perceived organizational performance. The objective of the current study is to create a conceptual framework to investigating the link between supply chain management practices and healthcare’s perceived organizational performance that indicates the mediating impact of alliance integrate...