A learning perspective was applied to examining when multinational corporations select universities rather than local firms as partners in international R&D alliances. Data were collected on 327 international R&D alliances established over the 1995–2001 period in China, an emerging economy where intellectual property rights protection is still far from adequate, over the 1995–2001 period. The e...

Received: 1 November 2008 Revised: 27 July 2009 Accepted: 27 July 2009 Online publication date: 7 January 2010 Abstract Although multinationals operate under cross-border jurisdictions, the relevance of interstate security relations to international business has received little attention. Despite the impressive accumulation of knowledge in international business and international relations, the...

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The multifaceted and strategic interactions inherent in the formation of international military pacts render the alliance decisions of states highly interdependent. Our aim here is to model the network of alliances in such a way as to capture the effects of covariates and account for the complex dependencies inherent in the network. Regression analysis, due to its foundational assumption of con...

Over the last twenty years a wave of consolidation has swept through the oceanic liner shipping industry, leaving the industry dominated by a small number of large firms organized into a handful of strategic alliances. As liner shipping is the dominant form of international transportation these changes have likely had a substantial impact of the global trading system. This paper empirically exa...

This paper presents a framework to analyze global alliances and mergers in the airline industry under competition. The framework can help airlines identify partners and network structures, and help governments predict changes in social welfare before accepting or rejecting proposed mergers or alliances. The research combines profit-maximizing objectives to cost-based network design formulations...

The HIV–AIDS epidemic is one of the most challenging and signifi cant health crises facing the world today. In order to cope with its complexities, the United Nations and World Health Organization have increasingly relied upon the resources offered by networks of HIV–AIDS nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). The research reported here uses evolutionary theory to predict the patterns of allianc...