n research and development (R&D) alliances, the partner firms must balance the tension between knowledge sharing and knowledge leakages because knowledge sharing, designed to support the alliance's technology development goals, can often lead to unintended and potentially damaging knowledge leakages. Governance structure is a well-understood knowledge protection strategy designed to reduce know...

Russia led a key Cold War alliance and is now at the forefront of debates about major power realignments. Yet Russia’s own conceptualization alliances in post-Soviet era has received scant attention. How do Russian policymakers academics view post-Cold alliances: Are they obsolete, or are still used for cultivating strategic relationships? We examine through systematic study policy documents ac...

This paper explores the nature of strategic goals underlying composite information systems (CIS) and ways to increase the likelihood of success. It studies a major regional hospital and its relationships with its physicians a s part of an actual case study for providing physicians and staff convenient interface to disparate hospital departments. This situation is a particularly appropriate CIS ...

Interregional technology convergence is one of the necessary conditions for coordinated development regional economy, and constructing cross-regional industry innovation strategic alliance (ITISA) main means to realize interregional convergence. This paper investigates whether establishment these alliances can improve technological ability ITISA its members how are distributed geographically ac...

A strategic alliance is a hybrid organizational form that is between an arms length contract and a full-fledged merger between firms. In some alliances firms take a minority equity stake in the partner firm. We refer to these as equity alliances. Using data on 759 alliances, we examine the motivation for the use of equity in alliances. We study whether equity is intended to strengthen the contr...

We employed a property rights approach to formulate a set of hypotheses explaining the choice between equity and non-equity alliances in the Information and Communication Technology industry. The firm’s need to control knowledge exchange and the resulting innovation makes property rights an important concern permeating partners’ strategic behavior. We showed that equity alliances were preferred...