...Alireza Daneshfar; Henry Adobor Purpose The purpose of this paper is to extend the line of research on the ex ante valuation of the economic payoff from strategic alliances. The paper links a firm's related pre‐alliance situation to an alliance announcement, to predict how investors value...

...Henry Adobor Purpose The management and strategy literature continues to show that many companies now rely on alliances for their long‐term success. This paper seeks to explain why some industries have an over‐representation of inter‐firm strategic alliances, relative to others. Design...

...@usbe.umu.se © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Competitive strategy Strategic alliances Research and business practice has placed a growing emphasis on co‐opetition, i.e. simultaneous cooperation and competition, as a strategy for dynamic development and competitive advantage...

... and morphogenesis of airline alliances, proposing thereby some of their structural properties which have an impact on their competitiveness. Strategic alliances have become a key feature in many sectors of the economy and especially in the airline industry (Goh and Uncles, 2003). Since the 1990s, “the general...

.... Partnerships among firms can take various forms. Commonly known as strategic alliances, they can range from licensing agreements to fully blown JVs. One way of approaching strategic alliances is through Williamson's (1975) transaction cost approach. This approach states that strategic alliance options lie...

... service elements have export as the target. STRATEGIC ALLIANCES IN THE BALTIC STATES: A CASE OF SWEDISH FIRMS CR Vol. 16, No. 3&4, 2006 concentrate on the local markets, while alliances offering products with less service elements have export as the target. by Akmal S. Hyder and Desalegn Abraha EXECUTIVE...

... are also presented. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Strategic alliances Classification Governance International trade Competitive strategy CR Vol. 16, No. 2, 2006 INTER-FIRM COLLABORATION: CONFIGURATIONS AND DYNAMICS by Henry Adobor EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Cooperative strategies, both...

... and the development of vertical concentrations. SCM could, in contrast, in such a case be the catalyst for powerful future strategic partnerships that could gently break arm’s‐length competition. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Supply chain management Competitive advantage Strategic alliances...