...Marta M. Vidal Suárez This paper analyzes the stock market reaction to global alliance formation in the Spanish context. For the purposes of this study, global alliances are those which are established with international partners in order to coordinate actions in several countries, seeking...

...Colin Butler; Brian Kenny; John Anchor Reports on research into the relationship between European defence manufacturing firms and their experience of cross‐border strategic alliances. The research takes in 135 cross‐border strategic alliances involving UK and European defence manufacturing firms...

... are suggested including international strategic alliances. Throughout the last 100 years this country has gone from being the core of an obsolete and disintegrating Ottoman Empire (itself struggling with modernization), to a disastrous alliance with the German Empire during the First World War which led...

... in 1996. Thus, cross‐border alliances, rather than acquisitions or outright mergers, appear to dominate. In France, the government has attempted to integrate the defence industry by bringing the Thomson group, along with parts of Dassault and Aerospatiale, under the leadership of Alcatel Althsom...

...Esteban García‐Canal During this current decade, many studies analyzing the use of co‐operative agreements by Spanish firms have been realized. Analyzes the results of these papers to determine if the main features of alliances signed by Spanish firms coincide with those observed in other studies...

...C.M. Clarke‐Hill; T.M. Robinson; J. Bailey The article is based on research carried out in 1995 on a sample of UK‐based retailers that were involved in international joint ventures and international buying alliances. The research identified the differences and comparison between these forms...

...Veronica Horton This paper examines patterns of collaboration between companies over a six year time period. Research results indicate that while the formation of alliances is on the rise, the upward trend may not be as strong as commonly thought, that most alliances are formed across national...

... a more extensive and robust alliance between the USA and a new Europe. ‘…The sharing of broadly similar cultural and liberal democratic traditions … engendered a reasonably proximate Weltanschauung on what shape the new world order should take. …the transatlantic powers remain particularly...