This paper aims to unbundle the antecedents of competence-based synergy in strategic alliance formation process by employing ARCTIC framework. The current research provides a new empirical application framework reveal success factors reciprocal synergies Renault–Nissan–Mitsubishi automotive industry. By taking resource-based view on sources competitive advantage, contributes theoretical and pra...

We question the strategic potential of EMPs to bring a competitive advantage to their users: their nature and the main differentiating factors that progressively appear over time. Based on three case studies in the retail, automotive and MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Order) industries, conducted from 2002-2007, we more thoroughly describe where buyers and suppliers perceive strategic advantages ...

Theory defines negotiation as a continual interpersonal interactive process of decision making. Multilateral negotiations are differentiated from bilateral negotiations because of their wider size, bigger complexity and greater heterogeneity. Management studies relating to negotiations have focused mainly on the negotiation processes between companies, customers and suppliers, and industrial re...

With the market competition aggravating, it becomes necessary for market players to adopt a business model which can adopt dynamic business changes. Any enterprise has the possibility to win in the competition only when it forms the strategic alliance with the upstream and downstream enterprise. This paper articulates a way of using unified modelling language (UML) to develop business value cha...

A strategic alliance is a hybrid organizational form that is between an arms length contract and a full-fledged merger between firms. In some alliances firms take a minority equity stake in the partner firm. We refer to these as equity alliances. Using data on 759 alliances, we examine the motivation for the use of equity in alliances. We study whether equity is intended to strengthen the contr...

A alliance studies have generally favored an ambidextrous approach between exploration and exploitation, they tend to overlook a firm’s characteristics, its industry constraints, or the dynamic network in which the firm is embedded. This study examines the ambidexterity hypothesis and its boundary conditions with a unique research method. We not only analyze empirical data from five U.S. indust...

In biand multilateral interactions, parties frequently make weak commitments, i.e., commitments to future actions from which they may nonetheless deviate at some cost. For example, partners in a strategic alliance usually increase their mutual commitment step by step, where intermediate stages imply only a weak commitment. This paper proposes a new mechanism by which weak commitments lead to im...

Abstract For the last several decades, global airline alliances have ensured their market presence in aviation industry. Scholars focused on effects of alliance affiliation for airlines and what competitive advantages are. However, these issues been discussed relation to operational aspects. The quality strategic communication can be an important factor achieving a advantage realizing different...

This article reports experiences relative to the evaluation of a strategic planning and leadership development process adopted by a school system located in southern Louisiana. A description of the planning model utilized and its application to the areas of staff development and curriculum alignment are described. Factors associated with successful strategic planning and the benefits of impleme...