The differential benefits reaped by individual partners are a major determinant of the impact of strategic alliances on firm performance and an important (dis)incentive for alliance partners to collaborate in value creation. Theoretically, we lack an explicit theory of intra-alliance value division; empirically, previous analysis has been hampered by methodological challenges. We propose a barg...

The Grand Alliance HDTV System has been designed for the needs and requirements of North America. The system has a great deal of flexibility to facilitate interoperability and is heavily based on international standards. The Grand Alliance and the FCC Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service have been working together to complete the design of the Grand Alliance HDTV System. When a tec...

We examined the association between the therapeutic alliance and treatment outcomes among 223 women with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorders who participated in a multisite clinical trial of group treatments for trauma and addictions in the United States throughout 2004 and 2005. General linear models indicated that women who received Seeking Safety, a cognitive-beh...

Acquisition research has traditionally been dominated by economic and atomistic assumptions. This study extends acquisition research by integrating behavioral learning and social network perspectives to examine the acquisitions of alliance partners. Specifically, we examine, at the dyadic level, how firms’ alliance learning approaches (exploration versus exploitation) and their joint and relati...

This study examines the influence of the structure and composition of a firm’s alliance network on its exploratory innovation. In a longitudinal investigation of 77 telecommunications equipment manufacturers, I find the technological diversity of a firm’s alliance partners increases its exploratory innovation. I also find that network density among a firm’s alliance partners strengthens the inf...

Strategic alliances are increasingly gaining popular for Textile companies to achieve fast and economical growth in today’s globalization. Strategic alliances are an important source of resources, learning, and thereby core competencies improvement. So managers have to make conscious decisions to develop certain competencies so as to have all competencies that are required to be successful, fir...

This paper summarizes the wide and fragmented literature on strategic alliance formation. A framework is developed to organize the extant literature into antecedents, motives and objectives of alliance formation, and incorporates five relevant theories to explain a firm’s motives to form an alliance. The definition and delineation of the framework stages helps to categorize the literature and i...

The authors investigated the temporal relationship between client and therapist attachment orientations and early working alliance. Attachment was measured by self-report after the 1st session of therapy. The working alliance ratings were completed after the 1st, 4th, and 7th therapy sessions. Hierarchical linear modeling results indicated that anxiously attached therapists had a significant po...

In this paper we introduce e-Alliance, a software infrastructure we are defining for supporting negotiation activities in concurrent inter-organisational alliances. e-Alliance main intent is to preserve autonomy of organisations within an alliance while enabling concurrency of their activities, flexibility of their negotiations and dynamism/evolution of their environment. The IT infrastructure ...

BACKGROUND Substantial evidence exists that positive therapy outcomes are related to the therapist-client working alliance. OBJECTIVES To report two studies that examined (1) the quality of the working alliance in online cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), with minimal therapist contact, for anxiety disorders in youth, and (2) the role of working alliance and compliance in predicting treatment ...