The Pathological Alliance

Alliance Formation, Alliance Expansion, and the Core

This article presents a simple cooperative game theory representation of alliance formation and expansion to counter a conventional threat along the allies’ borders. Mutual defense gains, derived from allying, arise from interior borders that no longer require protection. Spatial and locational attributes of the allies are crucial when identifying the gains from mutual defense and the distribut...

Human Rights and the Tobacco Industry: An Unsuitable Alliance

Alliance Capability, Stock Market Response, and Long-term Alliance Success: the Role of the Alliance Function

ALLIANCE CAPABILITY, STOCK MARKET RESPONSE, AND LONG-TERM ALLIANCE SUCCESS: THE ROLE OF THE ALLIANCE FUNCTION PRASHANT KALE,* JEFFREY H. DYER AND HARBIR SINGH 1 University of Michigan Business School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. 2 Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, U.S.A. 3 The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,...

ACI Alliance – The American Cochlear Implant Alliance Foundation

Cochlear implants enable children and adults who are deaf to hear the ever present sounds of speech, music, and the environment in their daily lives. Without intervention, adults and children with severe-to-profound hearing loss suffer great consequences, such as delays in the development of spoken language, reduced academic performance, and reduced occupational success. The successful utilizat...

Building Firm Capabilities through Learning: the Role of the Alliance Learning Process in Alliance Capability and Firm-level Alliance Success

ion of experience associated with a specific activity or task. We conceptualize codification in the alliance learning process in a similar manner. Codification involves creating and using knowledge objects or resources such as alliance guidelines, checklists, or manuals to assist action or decision making in future alliance situations. We also see it as being distinct from the aspect of articul...