today, the rapid and accelerating developments in the regional and international levels have caused countries to move towards greater integration and cooperation. this, in turn, triggered a new coalitions or alliances and strengthens old alliances, or even weaken. the emerging economic powers (brics) is one of these alliances and institutions that began its activities in 2009. the aim of the ne...

This paper investigates the relationship between intercorporate technology alliances and firm performance. It argues that alliances are access relationships, and therefore that the advantages which a focal firm derives from a portfolio of strategic coalitions depend upon the resource profiles of its alliance partners. In particular, large firms and those that possess leading-edge technological ...

To reduce complexity, we base our system on alliances—a set of agents that agree to share some private information and eventually cooperate. In CPlanT, each agent represents a complex, organized entity—such as a non-governmental organization (NGO), humanitarian organization, or army unit— that plays an active role in mission planning. These agents group themselves in various, temporary coalitio...

Humans in all societies form and participate in cooperative alliances. To successfully navigate an alliance-laced world, the human mind needs to detect new coalitions and alliances as they emerge, and predict which of many potential alliance categories are currently organizing an interaction. We propose that evolution has equipped the mind with cognitive machinery that is specialized for perfor...

Alliance raises many knowledge transfer and interfirm learning issues that have implications for how the alliance partners manage their cooperative learning activities in the alliance system. Many of these implications are grounded in the assumption that partners in the alliances have routines for transferring knowledge, learning, gaining management efficiencies. Thus organisations can support ...

BACKGROUND Arguably the most influential force in human history is the formation of social coalitions and alliances (i.e., long-lasting coalitions) and their impact on individual power. Understanding the dynamics of alliance formation and its consequences for biological, social, and cultural evolution is a formidable theoretical challenge. In most great ape species, coalitions occur at individu...