Departing from prior work that demonstrates the stickiness and stability of alliance networks resulting from embeddedness, we extend matching theory to study firms’ withdrawal from alliances. Viewing alliance withdrawal as a result of firms’ pursuit of more promising alternative partners – outside options – rather than failures in collaboration, we predict that a firm is more likely to withdraw...

As of 2009, International Journal of Behavioral Medicine (IJBM) will be published by Springer Science + Business Media. Springer is one of the largest scientific, technical, and medical publishers in the world. It publishes over 1,750 journals in the fields of social and behavioral sciences, medicine, humanities, business and economics, engineering, mathematics, physics, and chemical sciences. ...

Lying in a transformation period of economic development, economic prosperity, social progress and development in science and technology have to rely on strong competitiveness of a nation’s universities to a large degree. Actually, universities’ competitiveness is closely related to the improvement of a nation’s competitiveness in human resources, industrial development and its comprehensive st...

Global strategic alliances have become a major research topic within all areas of management research. However, existing studies focus on performance rather than on partner search and selection; and even the research on partner selection does not analyze the situation of an “existing” global strategic alliance evaluating potential new members. The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, we s...

Strategic alliance (SA) is pursued by a diverse array of firms motivated range factors. Among the SA themes, knowledge transfer (KT) has gained significant popularity over past fifteen years. The developing literature ontologically, epistemologically, and methodologically diverse. In spite helpful reviews, intellectual structure (up-stream decisions) SA–KT research remains unclear, arguably res...

 Envisioning system-on-chip design as the next industrial evolution, the Taiwan government recently launched a national Si-Soft project aiming to improve the infrastructure for the SOC based high-tech industry in Taiwan. The fabric of the Si-Soft project is the manpower development. The potential human resources in the TVE systems are thus considered as the best supply to achieve the goal of s...