Information sharing to achieve a foreign policy objective is an important feature of modern day alliances between countries. We develop a model of strategic communication to study information aggregation within an alliance. In an alliance, i) there is public communication (cheap talk) of private information by members; ii) the actions of players are strategic substitutes; iii) there are resourc...

Recognizing that strategic alliances represents important means for developing knowledge in critical arenas, such as new product development, the authors advance the notion of collateral learning that assess knowledge acquisition internal to a firm in the alliance. To examine its antecedents, the authors build on the behavioral theory of the firm and propose that strategic importance and perfor...

In this paper, we investigate the practice of quality management in strategic alliances. By employing a relational view of inter-organizational competitive advantage, the paper addresses the concept of quality management in strategic alliances and networks. We argue that institutional/network relationships influence the practice of quality within a network. In that regard, firms that have adopt...

We explore how an incumbent firm’s internal knowledge and organization structure influences its strategic alliance formation. We propose that the firm’s knowledge breadth and the centrality of its R&D organization structure positively influence its absorptive capacity, and consequently, its propensity to form strategic alliances. We also argue that the centrality of the R&D organization structu...

Purpose This study investigates the effect of strategic internal critical factors on alliance performance in an emerging market, Kingdom Saudi Arabia. Design/methodology/approach Multivariate statistical analysis technique Partial Least Square-Squared Equation Model is used for data considering a survey 260 managers. Findings Environmental complexity moderates relationship between and performan...

Over the last twenty years a wave of consolidation has swept through the oceanic liner shipping industry, leaving the industry dominated by a small number of large firms organized into a handful of strategic alliances. As liner shipping is the dominant form of international transportation these changes have likely had a substantial impact of the global trading system. This paper empirically exa...

The determinants of strategic alliance performance have not been explored adequately in the literature. Empirical studies abound with numerous kinds of performance measures but, thus far, there is no coherent theoretical basis for the determinants of alliance performance. In this article we present a theoretical framework for understanding alliance performance in terms of its key antecedents. W...

This study integrates research on strategic alliances and security analysts by focusing on the extent to which alliance announcements affect the amount of coverage firms obtain from security analysts. Adopting the perspective that alliance announcements constitute important market signals, I argue that they increase analyst coverage at a decreasing rate, but also that the strength of the relati...

Strategic alliances are commonplace in the high-technology sector. Biotechnology is a context in which this organizational arrangement has been particularly signi cant; hundreds of biotech alliances are established each year and these deals have become the primary source of nancing for the young rms in the industry. We posit that the stock of prior alliances between participants in the biotech ...

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...