Creating effective strategic alliance is a useful method for the global expansion of international companies and managing strategic alliances is an important research project to the success of strategic alliances. This paper focuses on the practical problems of strategic alliances in China and explores how to manage such alliances. This research aims to introduce the basic background of strateg...

Lack of coordination among agencies at project level and scarce promotion of contracts at micro-scale are critical gaps widely spread in many Latin American regions. We discuss some specific and feasible mechanisms: (i) alliances for rural development and (ii) contract promoters; that may play a catalytic role to deal with the mentioned problems. Based on a continuous improving integral strateg...

BACKGROUND Hospital purchasing alliances are voluntary consortia of hospitals that aggregate their contractual purchases of supplies from manufacturers. Purchasing groups thus represent pooling alliances rather than trading alliances (e.g., joint ventures). Pooling alliances have been discussed in the health care management literature for years but have never received much empirical investigati...

in recent decades, due to the complexity of the environment, interorganizational collaboration has become the major source of competitive advantage for firms. researches suggested that many of these partnership structures will meet failure in long term. accordingly, this study based on system dynamics method was investigated the critical success factors of strategic alliances in the ceramics an...

in this article wee seek to suggest an analytical model for explaining the israeli foreign policy. to do this, we must, on the one hand, survey briefly the main theories of foreign polcy and, on the other, to review the literature about the israeli foreign policy. the major question this paper would ask is: what are the main factors shaping the israeli foreign policy and which one might be said...

I examine how firms use alliances to respond to the alliance networks of their rivals, by either allying with their rivals’ partners or by building countervailing alliances. Evidence from the global airline industry (1994–98) suggests that these strategic responses depend on alliance cospecialization. Cospecialized alliances by rivals may involve exclusivity, precluding alliances with the rival...

Producer Alliances and Value-Added Business Ventures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Soybean Production: Competitive Positions of the United States, Brazil, and Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Weather and Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Farmland Lease Law Update . . . . . . 12 he food industry is undergoing significant structural changes, as the industrialization of agriculture con...

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...