A strategic alliance is a hybrid organizational form that is between an arms length contract and a full-fledged merger between firms. In some alliances firms take a minority equity stake in the partner firm. We refer to these as equity alliances. Using data on 759 alliances, we examine the motivation for the use of equity in alliances. We study whether equity is intended to strengthen the contr...

245 Book Review: Shields of the Republic Reviewed by Cody R. Schuette Republic: The Triumph and Peril America’s Alliances Mira Rapp-Hooper. Harvard University Press, 2020. ISBN: 978- 0-67-498295-6. 252 pp., $23.94 (US). doi: 10.18278/gsis.6.2.12 Global Security Intelligence Studies • Volume 6, Number 2 Winter 2021 China’s Russia’s audacious increasingly destructive transnational behavior is red...

Global retailers define strategies coherent with local cultures and traditions, as also develop products centered on internationally diffused products. In this perspective, private labels become fundamental for such strategies as far as they contribute directly to store loyalty consolidation and indirectly, to retailers brand equity reinforcement. Moreover, private label products prove the reta...

Many smaller dialysis centers are turning to cooperative alliances as a strategy to confront a competitive environment that is characterized by blurring industry boundaries, fast-changing technologies, and global integration. According to Lambe et al. (2002), alliance is broadly defined as the “collaborative efforts between two or more firms in which the firms pool their resources in an effort ...

Parenteral drug delivery is the second largest segment of the pharmaceutical market and accounts for nearly 30% of the market share. Currently, around 3.5 billion prefilled syringes are produced each year and that number is growing between 9%-10% annually. The Future of Alliances and Partnerships in the Prefilled Syringes Market to 2020 forecasts that the global market for prefilled syringes wi...

Let G = (V, E) be a graph. A nonempty subset S ⊆ V is a (strong defensive) alliance of G if every node in S has at least as many neighbors in S than in V \S. This work is motivated by the following observation: when G is a locally structured graph its nodes typically belong to small alliances. Despite the fact that finding the smallest alliance in a graph is NP-hard, we can at least compute in ...

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This paper studied the relationship between corporate IT capability and alliance performance in Chinese corporate alliances with regression analysis. With a sample of 127 alliances, this paper found IT capability has significantly positive effect on alliance performance and knowledge acquisition plays a role as a mediator, while regional factor plays a role as a moderator. That means the positi...