How
Alliances Reshape Competition
Handbook of Strategic Alliances (2006)
Alliances are intended to help firms cooperate
better and also to help them compete better. Are these two objectives always
compatible? This chapter proposes a way to think about the interaction between
alliances and competition. |
Competitive
Advantage in Alliance Constellations
Strategic Organization (2003)
What determines the success of a firm competing
as part of an alliance constellation? The elements of a theory to answer this
question are emerging. The paper aims to spark debate on this question. |
The Logic of
Alliance Fads: Why Collective Competition Spreads
M. E. Sharp book (forthcoming)
Alliances often seem to spread in waves. This
paper uses field data and the literature on organizational change to evaluate
three alternative interpretations of this pattern. It outlines a model that may
explain the logic of these waves. |
Group versus Group:
How Alliance Networks Compete
Harvard Business Review (1994)
Collaboration in business is no longer confined
to conventional two-company alliances. Today groups of companies are linking
together and a new form of competition is spreading: group vs. group. |
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Alliance
Strategies of Small Firms
Small Business Economics (1997)
Concludes that small firms follow one of two
alliance strategies. When the firms are small relative to their market, they
use alliances to gain economies of scale and scope; when they are large in relative
terms, they avoid alliances. |
Firm
Ownership Preferences and Host Government Restrictions
Journal of International Business Studies
(1990)
Integrates two approaches to explanation of
ownership choices: transaction-cost economics and business-government bargaining.
Tests model on data for U.S. MNCs. Winner of "JIBS Decade Award" for
most influential paper in that journal in 1990. |
Ownership Structure
of Foreign Subsidiaries
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
(1989)
Examines how U.S. MNCs select ownership structures
of foreign subsidiaries. Model based on transaction costs and strategic needs
of foreign and local firms is tested statistically. |
Joint Ventures in the
Face of Global Competition
Sloan Management Review (1989)
Presents a framework to help managers decide
when to use a joint venture in investments abroad. Factors considered include
technology, market power, and government regulations. |
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Do
alliances promote knowledge flows?
Journal of Financial Economics (2006)
Explores the role of interfirm alliances as
a mechanism for sharing technological knowledge. Finds that knowledge flows between
alliance partners is greater than between pairs of nonallied firms, and less
within a single firm. |
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Value
Destruction in Joint Ventures?
Brandeis Working Paper (2003)
Finds and explores a striking empirical pattern:
U.S. multinationals’ joint ventures abroad are substantially and systematically
less profitable than their wholly owned ventures. Develops a framework for understanding
ownership choice and profitability. |
Joint
Venture Instability: Is It A Problem?
Columbia Journal of World Business (1997)
Examines evidence of instability (or survival)
of joint ventures of U.S. manufacturing affiliates abroad. Suggests that the
instability problem is overstated and that joint venture exits may not signal
failure. |
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Alliances:
Encyclopedia Definition
Encyclopedia International Political Economy
(2002)
An inter-firm alliance is an organizational
structure to govern an incomplete contract between separate firms and in which
each firm has limited control. This concept is elaborated in this encyclopedia
entry. |
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