This paper summarizes the wide and fragmented literature on strategic alliance formation. A framework is developed to organize the extant literature into antecedents, motives and objectives of alliance formation, and incorporates five relevant theories to explain a firm’s motives to form an alliance. The definition and delineation of the framework stages helps to categorize the literature and i...

Strategic alliance is an agreement between two or more organizations to cooperate in a specific business activity, so that each benefits from the strengths of the other, and gains competitive advantage. The formation of strategic alliances has been seen as a response to globalization and increasing uncertainty and complexity in the business environment. Strategic alliances involve the sharing o...

This study is to describe the knowledge network of strategic alliance studies embedded in the leading articles and to explore the key research themes in this field between 1999 and 2008. A total of 521 articles with 21,493 cited references were extracted from the Social Science Citation Index and the Science Citation Index. By using bibliometric methods, the citation and co-citation counts obta...

a r t i c l e i n f o This article discusses factors affecting the success of international strategic alliances, specifically market orientation and communication methods. The study empirically compares market orientation and methods of communication with strategically allied SMEs (small and medium enterprises) in countries with different cultural values (i.e., United States and Korea). The fin...

The emergence of network forms of organization on many business markets has led to the development of new management activities. One core activity is the management of a company's relationships with partners in strategic alliances. Responsibilities for alliance management are increasingly attributed to a new type of formal position, the alliance manager. Based on empirical data from the IT sect...

Strategic alliances are increasingly gaining popular for Textile companies to achieve fast and economical growth in today’s globalization. Strategic alliances are an important source of resources, learning, and thereby core competencies improvement. So managers have to make conscious decisions to develop certain competencies so as to have all competencies that are required to be successful, fir...

One important question confronting firms engaged in a strategic alliance is how to adapt the relationship over time. This article identifies specific governance changes firms make in strategic alliances. Using illustrative data on strategic alliances in the biotechnology industry, the authors consider the frequency of governance adaptations and explore some of the factors affecting parent firms...

strategic alliance promotes enterprise resources sharing and enhances the competitiveness of the marketplace. therefore, finding a mutually beneficial partner to make a strategic alliance is an important issue for various industries. the aim of this paper is to propose a suitable method based on grey theory and data envelopment analysis (dea). a method predicts future business and measure opera...

This study links together theoretical models of strategic alliances with an empirical examination of stock returns on the announcement of strategic alliances. Using a sample of 123 strategic alliance announcements, the results find strong support for the hypothesis that strategic alliance announcements generate significant positive abnormal returns on the announcement day. Although strategic al...