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Reasons Alliances Work Better Than Acquisitions |
This article looks at six key differences between alliances and
mergers that show attributes of partnerships which may be
transferable to mergers. |
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Alliance Decision-Making of SMEs |
Traditional literature in developed countries has been focused on
large companies but, few researches have explored alliance as a
strategy to develop SMEs. The critical role of decision-making
process regarding to the choice of being engaging into an alliance
deserves particular research attention. |
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Alliance Strategy: Managing Beyond the Alliance |
Experience and research shows that companies that have a "strategic
alliance" without a coherent "alliance strategy" are almost sure to
fail. |
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Competitive advantage in alliance constellations |
What determines the success of a firm competing as part of an
alliance constellation? leaves us without a framework for analysis
and management. The elements of a theory to answer this question are
emerging. The paper aims to spark debate on this question. |
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Decision Making in Strategic Alliances: An Experimental
Investigation |
This paper experimentally investigates the determinants of the
deviation between potential and realized value creation in strategic
alliances. 2007. |
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Embedded patterns of international alliance formation |
Prior work provides an array of partially contradictory
recommendations on how managers should form international alliances.
The purpose of this manuscript is to introduce a more integrative
perspective of international alliance formation. |
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Growth Strategies and Value Creation - What works best for Stock
Exchanges? |
In recent years, demutualized stock exchanges have been increasingly
engaging in M&A and alliance activities. To examine the effect of
these growth strategies on exchange shareholders’ value creation, we
focus on 14 public stock exchanges and investigate their short-run
share price responses to the formation of 110 M&As and alliances all
over the world spanning the period 2000-2008. pdf 2010 |
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Guide to Forming a Strategic Alliance |
A guide to knowing when to partner—and with whom—with worksheets
that help you assess the risks. |
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Local And Virtual Alliances As A Supplemental Contributor To Firm
Performance |
The degree of participation of local alliances defines formal and
informal relationships designed to share the knowledge base of a
particular region. Local alliances have played an unprecedented
role in firm performance in the past. A firm's involvement with
those alliances can often be a measurable component to overall
success. |
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On
the Stability of Research Joint Ventures: Implications for Collusion |
Although joint R&D activities among firms are encouraged everywhere
today, the same old suspicion still lingers: does cooperation in R&D
facilitate product market collusion? |
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Preserve and Strengthen a Business Partnership |
Ten-step process resolves conflicts and increases mutual
understanding. |
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Role of organizational learning in strategic alliance |
This paper introduces organizational learning as the intermediary of
relational capital and alliance capability. In addition, this paper
identifies four dimensions of alliance capability confined to
organizational learning. |
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Self-Organisation of Strategic Alliances |
A number of factors affecting firms’ decisions to cooperate or not
cooperate within strategic alliances have been raised in the
literature. |
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Strategic Alliance Agreements |
These Strategic Alliance Agreements are actual legal documents
drafted by top law firms for their clients. |
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Strategic Alliances and Corporate Social Capital |
Theory and research have likewise proliferated to explain various
dimensions of alliance behavior. We emphasize how alliance networks
serve as corporate social capital to further both the individual and
collective objectives of partners. We conclude with some
speculations about future directions for theory construction and
empirical research on strategic alliances. 2002 |
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Strategic Partnering with Chinese companies: Hidden motives and
treasures |
In this paper we aim to investigate the key drivers of international
alliance formation from the perspective of Chinese companies. 2007 |
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Synergies In Strategic Alliances |
Motivation And Outcomes Of Complementary And Synergistic Knowledge
Networks, Bo Bernhard Nielsen, October 2002 |
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The
Embeddedness of Risk Profiles in Strategic Alliance Risk |
The literature on strategic alliances has for some time included
attention to the issue of risk in these relationships. Unless the
strategic focus is diversification, matching risk profiles in
strategic alliances can be a good measure of fit. 1999 |
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The
Relationship Between Trust & Control in International Joint Ventures |
An Empirical Analysis of Sino-German Equity Joint Ventures. 2003 |
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The
Role of Knowhow Acquisition in the Formation and Duration of Joint
Ventures |
A party's increased knowhow provides the impetus for the dissolution
of the joint venture, as it decreases the need for the partner's
knowhow. |
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Trust, Control, and Risk in Strategic Alliances: An Integrated
Framework |
Trust and control are inextricably interlinked with risk in
strategic alliances. Hence, to understand how partner firms can
effectively reduce and manage this risk, we need to examine the
inter-relationships between trust, control, and risk. In this
article, we propose a comprehensive and integrated framework of the
three constructs in the context of strategic alliances, contending
that trust and control are the two principal antecedents of risk.
2001 |
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Walking Down the Corporate Aisle: The Survival of Strategic Alliance |
This article reviews literature on global strategic alliances and
identifies the key success factors of the process by examining
representative studies of different strategic alliances. The
theoretical arguments used in previous literature are also presented
and eight critical success factors are highlighted explaining the
nature of success in alliance process. |
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