Rent Appropriation in Strategic Alliances: A Study of Technical Alliances in Pharmaceutical Industry

Strategic alliances in the high-tech industry

Foreword Krzysztof Klincewicz's book is of outstanding interest for business practitioners in the high-tech sector, as well as scholars and policy makers. In recent years, there has been growing pressure on firms to give higher priority to R&D and at the same time to improve their R&D effectiveness. These pressures are associated with the accelerating rate of product innovations, shorter produc...

Conditions for Successful Strategic Alliances in the Food Industry

This paper focuses on strategic fuzzy alliances (SFAs) and the role of trust in business-to-business relationships. First, a theoretical model of governance choice involving strategic alliances is developed, integrating the Shapiro, Sheppard, and Cheraskin (1992) taxonomy of trust into a neoinstitutional framework. Second, this model, based on transaction theory, is then used to generate necess...

Behavioral Factors in Strategic Alliances

Learning in strategic technology alliances

In this paper we examine the influence of strategic technology alliances on organisational learning. From an empirical perspective we examine the preand post-alliance knowledge bases of allying firms. We find that the pre-alliance knowledge base overlap of the allying firms has an inverted U-shaped relationship with the degree of learning taking place in the alliance. Alliances established for ...

International Strategic Alliances in the Iranian Home Appliance Industry: A Model of the Perceived Risks for Foreign Partners

Attracting foreign investment is one of the most important policies of the Iranian government for improving economic conditions. Nevertheless, despite the government and the Ministry of Industry's emphasis as well as the efforts of Iranian companies to attract foreign partners, this is less common in Iranian home appliance industry, which indicates the risks for foreign investors. Accordingly, ...