Available online 24 January 2014 This study aims to investigate the critical debate in corporate governance research concerning the boundary of the efficacy of the corporate governance mechanism. With particular focus on a specific set of firms' primary stakeholders, strategic alliance partners, our research design facilitates the examination of this issue. The results show a significantly posi...

The study presented in the article examined mediating role played by internationalisation both government financial support–export strategic performance and non-financial support– export relationships. moderating of a alliance relationships between support degree internationalisation, nonfinancial was also considered. entailed cross-sectional survey included 301 indigenous firms Ghana. reliabil...

Industry Life Cycles (ILCs) have been proposed as a means of analyzing the processes of company entry and exit in competitive industries. This paper utilizes ILC approaches to better understand the changing rationales for alliance formation for two large multination electronics firms, Nokia and Ericsson. Through the use of alliance announcements by the firms, we find that the rationale for alli...

To replicate and extend Dozier et al's (1992) test of Tomm’s hypothesis about the differential effects of questioning styles on therapeutic alliance an analogue study was conducted. Twenty-eight family triads, each including a son and his parents, viewed four videotaped simulated family therapy scenarios in which Tomm's four questioning styles were separately portrayed. Participants were asked ...

To replicate and extend Dozier's (1992) test of Tomm's hypothesis about the differential effects of questioning styles on therapeutic alliance, an analogue study was conducted. Twenty-eight family triads, each including a son and his parents, viewed four videotaped, simulated family therapy scenarios in which Tomm's four questioning styles were separately portrayed. Participants were asked to i...

Strategic alliances occur everywhere nowadays as a result of economy globalization. Goals of collaboration differ from alliance to alliance depending on industry, organizational, functional, social, legal, etc. aspects. Generally alliances have characteristics which are not a cumulative sum of characteristics of the parts. Collaborative business intelligence is one of the most desirable charact...

Empirical research on strategic alliances has focused on the idea that alliance partners are selected on the basis of social capital considerations. In this paper we emphasize instead the role of complementary knowledge stocks (broadly defined) in partner selection, arguing not only that knowledge complementarity should not be overlooked, but that it may be the true causal force behind alliance...

This paper will discuss determinants of supplier selection and evaluation, their impact on business key performance indicators with a focus on telecom companies. This research is causal by nature. Interviews were conducted from the heads, managers and specialists of the supply chain department. Data was gathered through questionnaire distributed among the practitioners. Different statistical to...

INTRODUCTION Coalitions of supporters of comprehensive tobacco control policy have been crucial in achieving policy success nationally and internationally, but the dynamics of such alliances are not well understood. METHODS Qualitative semi-structured, narrative interviews with 35 stakeholders involved in developing the European Council Recommendation on smoke-free environments. These were th...

Available online 15 January 2014 To speed up strategic alliance in R&D activities, different forms of R&D organization structures can be summarized into different roles including the input-oriented, the output-oriented, and the matrix organization structure. Themost commonmode of strategic alliance consists of horizontal and vertical integrations. However, the study adopting absorptive capacity...