Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that following from the premise that knowledge comprises the fundamental source of competitive advantage, this study provides results of a meta-analysis that examines whether and how alliance performance is influenced by the role knowledge plays in a strategic alliance. Design/methodology/approach – Meta-analysis is employed as the driving methodol...

Male bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, Western Australia form two levels of alliances; two to three males cooperate to herd individual females and teams of greater than three males compete with other groups for females. Previous observation suggested two alliance tactics: small four to six member teams of relatives that formed stable pairs or trios and unrelated males in a large 14-member secon...

This study integrates research on strategic alliances and security analysts by focusing on the extent to which alliance announcements affect the amount of coverage firms obtain from security analysts. Adopting the perspective that alliance announcements constitute important market signals, I argue that they increase analyst coverage at a decreasing rate, but also that the strength of the relati...

A defensive k-alliance in a graph G = (V, E) is a set of vertices A ⊆ V such that for every vertex v ∈ A, the number of neighbors v has in A is at least k more than the number of neighbors it has in V − A (k is a measure of the strength of alliance). In this paper, we deal with two types of sets associated with defensive k-alliances; maximum defensive k-alliance free and minimum defensive k-all...

BACKGROUND Therapeutic alliance between clinicians and their patients is important in community mental healthcare. It is unclear whether providing effective interventions influences therapeutic alliance. AIMS To assess the impact of meeting previously unmet mental health needs on the therapeutic alliance between patients and clinicians. METHOD Secondary analysis of data from a longitudinal ...

The Working Alliance Inventory-Short Revised (WAI-SR) is a recently refined measure of the therapeutic alliance that assesses three key aspects of the therapeutic alliance: (a) agreement on the tasks of therapy, (b) agreement on the goals of therapy and (c) development of an affective bond. The WAI-SR demonstrated good psychometric properties in an initial validation in psychotherapy outpatient...

Research on strategic alliances tends to focus on their performance and outcome rather than the process thateventually leads to a particular outcome i.e. alliance success or alliance failure. This study aims to identifyfactors that lead to an alliance breakup. Specifically, the Volvo-Renault alliance within the European automotiveindustry is investigated as a case study. A 'Strategi...

PURPOSE Accumulating research suggests that perceived injustice is a risk factor for adverse recovery following painful injury. Presently, however, little is known about the processes by which perceived injustice influences rehabilitation outcomes. It is plausible that perceived injustice and associated anger impact rehabilitation outcomes by compromising the quality of the therapeutic working ...

UNLABELLED The link between alliance and treatment outcome is robust. Nevertheless, few, if any, self-report measures exist to assess the alliance between hospitalized adolescents and their treatment team as a whole. The present study looks to extend the use of a brief self-report measure of inpatient treatment alliance designed for adult inpatients to be used with adolescents. The scale is des...

Alliance management has been on the agenda of management scholars and corporations for many years now. In spite of the attention in the academic and management literature on many aspects of alliance management, track records of alliances are still poor. Most of the literature has been unable to unveil the secret ingredients of alliance success. Only very recently, authors have started to make s...