In property rights theory, financial contracting structures can align property rights to promote entrepreneurial firm innovation. I first provide novel estimates that strategic alliances have 6% to 11% higher overall innovative success rates compared to corporate VC and independent VC, respectively. Then, using a matched quasi-experiment in clinical trials to decompose selection (endogenous mat...

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...

We investigate the structure of global inter-firm relationships using a unique dataset containing information on customers, suppliers, licensors, licensees and strategic alliances for each of 412,814 major incorporated non-financial firms in the world. We focus on three different networks: customer-supplier network, licensee-licensor network, and strategic alliance network. In/out-degree distri...

SCM (supply chain management) emphasizes on the strategic cooperative relationship between core enterprise and enterprise alliance. The selection of strategic partners is an important decision-making problem in SCM and is the key to successful SCM. In this paper, aiming for the supplier selection problem, the author discusses a class of AHP (analytical hierarchy process) technique—simulation ap...

This research contributes to the security design of an advanced smart drone swarm network based on a variant Blockchain Governance Game (BGG), which is theoretical game model predict moments actions before attacks, and Strategic Alliance for (SABGG), one BGG variants has been adapted construct best strategies take preliminary strategic alliance protecting drones in blockchain-based network. Sma...

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 knowledge transfer and partial equity ownership (PEO). We consider an industry consisting of n + 2 firms, where firm 1...

Two facts stand out unambiguously in today’s global business. One, international alliances are prolif erating, underscoring the strategic importance managers increasingly attach to “competition through cooperation. ” Two, trust is key to successful international alliances. Together, these two facts point to the need to better understand trust, a task that was attempted in an earlier article (Pa...

Participants in research and development alliances face a difficult challenge: how to maintain sufficiently open knowledge exchange to achieve alliance objectives while controlling knowledge flows to avoid unintended leakage of valuable technology. Prior research suggests that choosing an appropriate organizational form or governance structure is an important mechanism in achieving a balance be...

Purpose – The purpose of this exploratory study is to examine the partner selection criteria reported by maritime firms in Norway. The study aims to analyze how a maritime firm’s competitive advantage can be enhanced by the selection of the right partner with reference to a strategic alliance. Design/methodology/approach – A multiple-case study methodology was used. Archival, survey and intervi...

For any simple connected graph $G=(V,E)$, a defensive alliance is a subset $S$ of $V$ satisfying the condition that every vertex $vin S$ has at most one more neighbour in $V-S$ than it has in $S$. The minimum cardinality of any defensive alliance in $G$ is called the alliance number of $G$, denoted $a(G)$. In this paper, we introduce a new type of alliance number called $k$-strong alliance numb...