OBJECTIVES Multi-stakeholder healthcare alliances in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) program brought together diverse stakeholders to work collaboratively to improve healthcare in their local communities. This article evaluates how well the AF4Q alliances were collectively positioned to sustain themselves as AF4Q program support ended. METHODS This anal...

International container shipping industry experiences important innovation after the 1980s. This is caused by the progress of Asian shipping to stay abreast of the economic development and the authorization of the revised US Shipping Act in 1984. Before the act, container shipping industry is exempt from antitrust law. The act is intended to loosen regulation and promote competition. Consequent...

Some cross-cultural evidence suggests lethal coalitionary aggression in humans is the product of residence and descent rules that promote fraternal interest groups, i.e., power groups of coresident males bonded by kinship. As such, human lethal coalitions are hypothesized to be homologous to chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) border patrols. However, humans demonstrate a unique metagroup social struc...

Resilience is a particularly important quality for supply chains in this turbulent environment. the chain ability to retain, resume, and recover operations after an intense destructive incident. One of strategic solutions managing disruptions establish collaboration alliances order achieve competitive advantage. Therefore, given increasing publication articles areas resilience, it good opportun...

superpowers write the international dramatics, stage manager and carry out it but they ignore whenever these principles and normatives do not provide their interests. the main core of neo-realists reasoning is that nuclear superpowers are much dangerous and more threatening than small powers. this article tries to indicates that us. and israel in spite of the fact are nuclear states and ignore ...

Since behavioral and cultural factors play a major role in strategic alliances between partners, IT managers must understand the intricacies involved in the development of resultant IT infrastructure in satisfying both business requirements and cultural fit of the aligned partnering units. This paper first highlights the IT-related issues and cultural issues which are important in the process o...

Th is paper is concerned with management processes in inter-institutional alliances in higher education, using an action research case study of a strategic alliance for research, teaching and the provision of services between two British universities. Findings are broadly supportive of the conclusions from the general literature on the management of strategic alliances and the literature on aca...

When firms form an alliance, it often involves one firm acquiring an equity stake in its alliance partner. Such an alliance lessens the competition, but induces knowledge transfer within the alliance. This paper explores oligopoly models that capture this important link between partial equity ownership (PEO) and knowledge transfer. We consider an industry consisting of three firms, where firm 1...