Handbook of Strategic Alliances

Edited by:

Oded Shenkar - Ohio State University, USA
Jeffrey J. Reuer - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, Purdue University, USA

Other Titles in:
Organization Studies (General) | Strategic Management & Business Policy (General)

October 2005 | 488 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

The Handbook of Strategic Alliances covers the state of art of research on strategic alliances and serves to lay out a research agenda on collaborative strategy and alliance management. Leading scholars in the field chart the alliance literature, its evolution, current state, and future course. The handbook covers the theoretical foundations that guide work on inter-firm collaboration, ranging from sociological perspectives to real options theory to diverse traditions within organizational economics. It proceeds to open the "black boxes" of alliance management across the life-cycle phases as well as functional spectrum, addressing topics such as contracting, design choices, and interorganizational trust, as well as the neglected areas of organization behavior and human resource management. An in-depth look at cross-border alliances is then followed by an examination of new alliance forms in the new economy, entrepreneurial networks, and collaborations between for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. The handbook concludes by examining methodological issues and addresses the prospect for interdisciplinary research.

Features and Benefits:

Brings together the leading scholars and practitioners from around the globe. Provides direct interface with functional areas (strategy, OB, HRM, entrepreneurship) in an integrated way; Links theory and practice

Has separate treatment (section) devoted to cross-border alliances

Has separate treatment (section) of research methodologies

Examination of non-traditional alliances, attention to research methodologies for alliances, breath of coverage on theoretical foundations

I. Introduction to Strategic Alliances

Oded Shenkar and Jeffrey J. Reuer

1. The Alliance Puzzle: Known Terrain, Black Boxes, and the Road Ahead

II. Theoretical Foundations

Mark Casson and Michael J. Mol

2. Strategic Alliances: A Survey of Issues from an Entrepreneurial Perspective

Benjamin Gomes-Casseres

3. How Alliances Reshape Competition

Yadong Luo

4. Opportunism in Cooperative Alliances: Conditions and Solutions

Prashant Kale and Maurizio Zollo

5. Understanding Partnering Processes and Outcomes: The Contribution of Evolutionary Theory

Anju Seth and Tailan Chi

6. What Does a Real Options Perspective Add to the Understanding of Strategic Alliances?

Gordon Walker

7. Networks of Strategic Alliances

III. Alliance Management: Opening the "Black Boxes"

Stephen Tallman and Anupama Phene

8. Structuring and Restructuring Alliances: A Theory-Based Process Model

Africa Ariño and Jeffrey J. Reuer

9. Alliance Contractual Design

Akbar Zaheer and Jared Harris

10. Interorganizational Trust

Kwok Leung and Steven White

11. Exploring Dark Corners: An Agenda for Organizational Behavior Research in Alliance Contexts

Randall S. Schuler and Ibraiz Tarique

12. Alliance Forms and Human Resources Issues

Marjorie A. Lyles and Siegfried P. Gudergan

13. Learning and Knowledge Development in Alliances

IV. Cross-Border Collaborations

Andrew Delios

14. Alliances and International Business Theory

Piero Morosini

15. Nurturing Successful Alliances Across Boundaries

Jaideep Anand and Prashant Kale

16. International Joint Ventures in Emerging Economies: Past Drivers and Emerging Trends

V. Nontraditional Strategic Alliances

Lalit Manral and Kathryn Rudie Harrigan

17. Alliances in the New Economy

R. Duane Ireland, Michael A. Hitt, and Justin W. Webb

18. Entrepreneurial Alliances and Networks

Ted London, Dennis A. Rondinelli, and Hugh O'Neill

19. Strange Bedfellows: Alliances Between Corporations and Nonprofits

VI. Alliance Research Methodologies

Arvind Parkhe

20. Research Methods in Alliances

Jane Salk and Davina Vora

21. Research Outside the "Core": Opportunities in Alternative Approaches and Methods for Studying Cooperative Alliances

Paul Olk

22. Modeling and Measuring the Performance of Alliances

Mark de Rond and Sonja Marjanovic

23. The Legitimacy of Messiness: Interdisciplinary Research, Systems of Innovation, and Strategic Alliances

Index

About the Editors

About the Authors

"This collection covers state-of-the-art research on strategic alliances and serves to pave the road for future alliances research. Little is understood about the specific managerial challenges involved in establishing and operating alliances, from their inital set up, and throughout their life cycle. This handbook is intended to fill the gap by looking inside some of the 'black boxes' that have been acknowledged in the alliance literature, but seldom opened."

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