Kamisha Hamilton Escoto, PhD, is Research Director, Healthcare Information and Innovation, Ingenix Consulting, Ann Arbor, MI. Ronald J. Ozminkowski, PhD, is Vice President, Healthcare Information and Innovation, Ingenix Consulting. Kevin Hawkins, PhD, is Senior Research Director, Healthcare Information and Innovation, Ingenix Consulting. Cynthia Hommer, MSW, LICSW, is Director, Clinical Initiat...

Due to the increasing market turbulence, companies, organizations and individuals need to tune their actuation forms so that they can prevail. It is particularly essential to create alliances and partnerships for collaborative problem solving when responding to new businesses or collaborative opportunities. In all types of alliances it is necessary to establish agreements that represent the rig...

This paper investigates the role of related alliance experience and information technology in value creation through strategic alliances. Past research has shown that alliance experience is an important antecedent of the value of an alliance. Built on the existing literature on alliance experience, this study highlights the importance of relatedness in alliance experience and examines how vario...

Collaborative e-commerce have been considered as an effective waterway for underpinning advanced inter-organizational relationships. Dynamic alliance is one of novel organization structures that bring together individual entities located in an open and distributed environment temporarily for a specific goal, and combine their core competencies to improve the agility and flexibility of alliances...

In this study, the authors examined the relation between adolescent and parent therapeutic alliances and treatment outcome among 65 substance-abusing adolescents receiving multidimensional family therapy. Observer ratings of parent alliance predicted premature termination from treatment. Observer ratings, but not self-report, of adolescent alliance predicted adolescents' substance abuse and dep...

The development and management of alliances is a critical strategic skill in hospitality and tourism. Very little can happen in these sectors without multiple firms working collaboratively with one another to serve the consumer. All over the world companies are entering into alliances (see Table 1). However, research in this and other sectors suggest that most will fail leaving both partners sa...

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...

This paper shows empirically that in an intra-industry oligopolistic scenario the location of a firm’s innovative activities plays an important role in determining its partner selection in R&D alliances. Such a role is mainly attributed to a strategic use of R&D alliances as a means to limit knowledge flows and protect competences, rather than to promote knowledge flows. By drawing on a novel d...

The regional Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) Neonatal Alliance and national neonatal alliances in Bolivia, El Salvador, and Peru were studied through in-depth interviews and a review of publications. Findings were analyzed to distill successful strategies, structures, and tools for improving neonatal health by working through alliances that can be replicated at the regional or national level...

This paper explores two key research questions: (1) what are the growth trends of international research and development (R&D) collaborations in China; and (2) what factors determine the choice of international R&D alliance objectives in terms of a research or development orientation? It examines the rapid growth of international R&D alliances in China over the 1995–2000 period and explains mul...