Alliance raises many knowledge transfer and interfirm learning issues that have implications for how the alliance partners manage their cooperative learning activities in the alliance system. Many of these implications are grounded in the assumption that partners in the alliances have routines for transferring knowledge, learning, gaining management efficiencies. Thus organisations can support ...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the strategic alliances that Catalan hospitals form with other health care entities and other types of institutions to foster technological and organizational innovation. METHODS Qualitative case studies were conducted at a sample of 16 public hospitals in Catalonia, Spain. The sample was limited to three (Level 1-3) of Catalonia's four levels of hospitals (classified acc...

in the current era, there is a strong need for marketing thought to move toward new marketing perspective. abundant evidence shows that marketing should be interdisciplinary and cross– functional, hence we have to focus more on human resources, agile and empowered structures, networks and strategic alliances. research design is descriptive and it is applicable in terms of objective. the researc...

n research and development (R&D) alliances, the partner firms must balance the tension between knowledge sharing and knowledge leakages because knowledge sharing, designed to support the alliance's technology development goals, can often lead to unintended and potentially damaging knowledge leakages. Governance structure is a well-understood knowledge protection strategy designed to reduce know...

This paper investigates how firms choose among acquisitions, alliances, and divestitures when they decide to expand or contract their boundaries. The dataset covers 9276 deals announced and completed by 86 members of the Fortune 100 between 1990 and 2000. Our findings support explanations based on resources, transaction costs, internalization, organizational learning, social embeddedness, asymm...

Web services are emerging as a new paradigm for integrating business processes across heterogeneous computing environments. They are expected to alleviate the perennial problem of interoperability of software applications, which results in data and information silos. Many application service providers have repositioned themselves as Web services providers to compete in this highly volatile indu...

Information and communication technologies (ICT) continuously create new types of markets and new patterns of industry dynamics. The continuous advancement of mobile technologies offers an opportunity for mobile carriers and banks to offer mobile banking services. However, such convergence of services from mobile carriers and banks raises some issues that are not necessarily easy to resolve sin...