Current theoretical arguments highlight a dilemma faced by actors who either adopt a weak or strong commitment strategy for managing their alliances and partnerships. Actors who pursue a weak commitment strategy—i.e. immediately abandon current partners when a more profitable alternative is presented—are more likely to identify the most rewarding alliances. On the other hand, actors who enact a...

This study links together theoretical models of strategic alliances with an empirical examination of stock returns on the announcement of strategic alliances. Using a sample of 123 strategic alliance announcements, the results find strong support for the hypothesis that strategic alliance announcements generate significant positive abnormal returns on the announcement day. Although strategic al...

This paper presents a framework to analyze global alliances and mergers in the airline industry under competition. The framework can help airlines identify partners and network structures, and help governments predict changes in social welfare before accepting or rejecting proposed mergers or alliances. The research combines profit-maximizing objectives to cost-based network design formulations...

Knowledge-intensive outsourcing alliances present outsourcers with a tension between simultaneously sharing enough private knowledge to accomplish alliance goals and safeguarding such knowledge against misappropriation. This study explores the perspective that increasing interfirm modularity lowers the need for interfirm knowledge sharing. Put another way, modularity complements outsourcee igno...

Creating effective strategic alliance is a useful method for the global expansion of international companies and managing strategic alliances is an important research project to the success of strategic alliances. This paper focuses on the practical problems of strategic alliances in China and explores how to manage such alliances. This research aims to introduce the basic background of strateg...

This paper analyzes the effects on flight frequency of two alliances that came about in Russian airline market recent years: between Aeroflot and SkyTeam 2006, S7 oneworld 2010. We use a difference-in-differences (DID) model to identify these frequencies. The integration into provides evidence alliance resulted reduced frequencies routes where overlapped with its new partners, but it increased ...

Abstract Alliances are agreements among independent states to cooperate militarily in the face of potential or realized military conflict. However, not all alliances endure for decades. Existing empirical evidence suggests that there is a variance lifespan alliances. I argue more likely be dissolved when their treaty obligations undermine autonomy state’s core security strategy. In this vein, a...

Any reasonably large group of individuals, families, states, and parties exhibits the phenomenon of subgroup formations within the group such that the members of each group have a strong connection or bonding between each other. The reasons of the formation of these subgroups that we call alliances differ in different situations, such as, kinship and friendship (in the case of individuals), com...

BACKGROUND Hospital purchasing alliances are voluntary consortia of hospitals that aggregate their contractual purchases of supplies from manufacturers. Purchasing groups thus represent pooling alliances rather than trading alliances (e.g., joint ventures). Pooling alliances have been discussed in the health care management literature for years but have never received much empirical investigati...

in recent decades, due to the complexity of the environment, interorganizational collaboration has become the major source of competitive advantage for firms. researches suggested that many of these partnership structures will meet failure in long term. accordingly, this study based on system dynamics method was investigated the critical success factors of strategic alliances in the ceramics an...