Strategic alliances and models of collaboration
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to engage in a comprehensive review of the research on strategic alliances in the last decade.
Design/methodology/approach
After presenting a typology of diverse alliance governance forms, reviews recent analyses of alliance formation, implementation management, and performance outcomes of collaborative activities.
Findings
Strategic alliances developed and propagated as formalized interorganizational relationships. These cooperative arrangements represent new organizational formation that seeks to achieve organizational objectives better through collaboration than through competition.
Practical implications
The paper provides future research directions on partner selection, networks patterns and processes, understanding the integration in alliances through fusion, fission, and how to manage developmental dynamics.
Originality/value
Concludes with some future directions for theory construction and empirical research.
Keywords
Citation
Todeva, E. and Knoke, D. (2005), "Strategic alliances and models of collaboration", Management Decision, Vol. 43 No. 1, pp. 123-148. https://doi.org/10.1108/00251740510572533
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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