Strategic alliances form a vital part of today’s business environment. The sheer variety of collaborative forms is notable which include R&D coalitions, marketing and distribution agreements, franchising, coproduction agreements, licensing, consortiums and joint ventures. Here we define a strategic alliance as a cooperative agreement between two or more autonomous firms pursuing common objectiv...

Strategic alliances form a vital part of today’s business environment. The sheer variety of collaborative forms is notable which include R&D coalitions, marketing and distribution agreements, franchising, coproduction agreements, licensing, consortiums and joint ventures. Here we define a strategic alliance as a cooperative agreement between two or more autonomous firms pursuing common objectiv...

BACKGROUND Social franchising has developed as a possible means of improving provision of health services through engaging the non-state sector in low- and middle-income countries. OBJECTIVES To examine the evidence that social franchising has on access to and quality of health services in low- and middle-income countries. SEARCH STRATEGY We searched the Cochrane Effective Practice and Orga...

International social security agreements are advantageous both for persons who are working now and for those whose working careers are over. For current workers, the agreements eliminate the dual contributions they might otherwise be paying to the social security systems of both the United States and another country. They also favorably affect the profitability and competitive position of Ameri...

BACKGROUND Service franchising is a business model that involves building a network of outlets (franchisees) that are locally owned, but act in coordinated manner with the guidance of a central headquarters (franchisor). The franchisor maintains quality standards, provides managerial training, conducts centralized purchasing and promotes a common brand. Research indicates that franchising priva...

Nowadays, organizations establish Business-to-Business (B2B) collaborations with their business partners. Inter-organizational collaboration is carried out through the execution of collaborative business processes. Organizations are requiring and undergoing the setting up of dynamic B2B collaborations, instead of conducting face-to-face negotiations and agreements for executing collaborative pr...