strategic alliance is a cooperation contract between two or more organizations who want to improve their competitive situation and performance through resource sharing. one of the common types of strategic alliances is the alliance between two organizations working in the same industry. one of those industries which alliances occur most likely is the casting industry. in this regard, this resea...

Exploring the potential transition from strategic technology partnering to mergers and acquisitions This paper studies a number of research topics derived from the basic question: do inter-firm partnerships with different intermediary modes of company organization change over time as one of the companies that were previously cooperating becomes integrated by its partner? As such this contributi...

We propose the first network-based theory of alliance formation. Our theory suggests that, in addition to key state and dyad attributes already established by the literature, the evolution of the alliance network from any given point in time is largely determined by its structure. Specifically, we argue that closed triangles in the alliance network – where i is allied with j is allied with k is...

Aims : Ecosystems nationally at risk in Australia are listed under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Act (EPBC Act), many cross State jurisdictional boundaries. The determination of these ecosystems across boundaries based on expert knowledge. International Vegetation Classification has potential to be useful as a cross-jurisdictional hierarchy which also gives global perspective ec...

In recent years, there are many theories and models such as transaction cost theory and the resource-based view have been proposed to explain the formation of strategic alliances. However, the perspectives are usually limited and incomplete. Additionally, the problem of resource allocation is also a serious issue when firms enter strategic alliances. The paper, here, proposes a holistic perspec...

From the knowledge-based view of the firm, we examined the relationship between internal R&D resources and technological alliances by data from 234 technology-based smalland medium-sized enterprises in Japan. We found: (1) the higher the internal R&D resources, the more non-equity-type alliances firms tended to pursue; (2) subjective factors such as entrepreneurial top management with overseas ...

With the development of software outsourcing industry, there is a growing trend to establish the software outsourcing alliances. Whether alliances’ profit distribution is reasonable affects directly and significantly alliances’ stability. This paper introduces the Shapley value method which is a common profit distribution method applicable to multiple people cooperation. Due to the weakness of ...