The literature on strategic alliances has for some time included attention to the issue of risk in these relationships. Typically, in researchers' conceptualizations, risk is manifested in terms of uncertainty regarding partner performance outcomes, and uncertainty about cooperation among alliance partners. Underlying both dimensions is the notion of an alliance partner's risk profile an organi...

The changing competitive dynamics in the online environment has resulted in an increased pressure for organizations to gain IT resources and capabilities much ahead of their rivals. This has resulted in a surge in strategic IT alliances and online partnerships among organizations engaged in E-commerce. Combining resource based view of firm and contingency perspectives, we offer a framework to u...

In this paper we examine the influence of strategic technology alliances on organisational learning. From an empirical perspective we examine the preand post-alliance knowledge bases of allying firms. We find that the pre-alliance knowledge base overlap of the allying firms has an inverted U-shaped relationship with the degree of learning taking place in the alliance. Alliances established for ...

For those Western multinational enterprises (MNEs) such as HP and IBM under the pressure of ongoing E-Business transformation, strategic alliances can be a very useful way. In this paper, we compare two MNE subsidiaries (HP and IBM) in Taiwan to analyze their e-service alliance strategies and the similarities and differences. We find that Taiwanese firms are interested in forming strategic alli...

The order of authorship was determined alphabelicaily. We thank the associate editor Don Palmer, three anonymous reviewers, and The following individuals for their helpful comments: Gautam Ahuja, Martin Gargiulo, Mark Mizruchi, MarcDavid Seidel, Karen Westphai, and Edward Zajac. We would like to thank Linda Johanson for editorial guidance. This study examines the influence of the sociai network...

The rapid technological developments in domains involving multiple technologies, like ICT, compel firms to enter into inter-firm arrangements to facilitate access to extramural resources. However, participation in strategic technology alliances often requires an updated management practice that can cope with the complexities of interfirm collaboration. When ventures reach the commercialisation ...

CONTEXT Community-level strategic planning for chronic disease prevention. OBJECTIVE To share the outcomes of the strategic planning process used by Mississippi Delta stakeholders to prevent and reduce the negative impacts of chronic disease in their communities. A key component of strategic planning was participants' use of the Prevention Impacts Simulation Model (PRISM) to project the reduc...

Firms no longer compete as autonomous entities and prefer to join in a supply chain alliance to take advantage of highly competitive business situation. Supply chain coordination has a great impact on strategic partnering and success of a firm in competitive business environment. In this paper, we propose a system dynamics simulation model for strategic partner selection in supply chain. Our mo...

This paper aims at contributing to the research concerning alliance dynamics by combining elements from research considering motives for alliance formation and alliance outcomes. This paper draws on the resource-based view of the firm, suggesting that firms' competitive advantages derive from their preferential access to idiosyncratic resources, especially tacit knowledge-related (based) resour...