... are relation specific  4 Mesquita et al. (2008) The types of competitive advantage brought by vertical alliances Equipment industry in the USA Vertical between suppliers Survey Conciliation of the two theories (resource-based view and relational view) regarding competitive advantages...

... of alliance amongst rivals. In other words, CI integrates its purpose in a cooperative dimension. Some authors have shown that CI contributes to a firm’s ability to access competitive advantage and cooperation. CI can then be apprehended in terms of network theory, which established its foundations...

... device to organize and analyse the data collected from Nordea bank. Dr Aihie Osarenkhoe can be contacted at: aoh@hig.se © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Performance Change management Alliances Best practice Business process re-engineering Cross-functional integration...

...Timothy L. Pett; C. Clay Dibrell Develops a conceptual framework of global strategic alliances by using the hybrid type of organization as part of the framework. The framework illustrates the relationships of various characteristics that might be present in an industry and across national...